Having no difficulty in language functions needed in living an everyday life, using various public facilities and maintaining social relationships.
Able to understand and express familiar, specific social topics in units of paragraphs.
Able to understand and express basic characteristics of colloquial and written Korean.
Grade
4
Able to perform functions needed in using public facilities, maintain social relationships and carry out normal functions.
Able to understand plain content in the news or newspaper columns.
Albe to fluently understand and express social and abstract themes.
Able to understand and express social and cultural content based on an understanding of widely used idiomatic expressions and representative Korean Culture.
Grade
5
Able to express language functions needed in research and work in fields of expertise to a certain extent.
Able to use language skills in unfamiliar themes such as politics, economics, society, and culture.
Adequately able to use langauge in official and unofficial context, and in colloquial and literary context.
Grade
6
Able to fluently and perfectly express language functions needed in research and work in fields of expertise.
Able to use language skills in unfamiliar themes such as politics, economics, society, and culture.
Has no difficulty in language functions or language expressions to a near-native extent.
Source by TOPIK Hong Kong Test of Proficiency in Korean
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