The offered book is one of the best manuals on the study of Korean, created by the Korean specialists, and addressed by all wishing independently to study Korean. Edition in Russian language is prepared with participation of specialists of СПбГУ.A manual is oriented to the students initial level, already knowing about the Korean alphabet of хангыль. In a manual all aspects of language and speech are exposed: each of 13 divisions of book sanctified to the certain colloquial theme and contains a dialogue, new words and expressions, rules of reading, grammatical material, text, practical exercises, and also culturological comment.The authors of manual use an original methodical reception allowing to studying to submerge in a language environment and master the colloquial models of Korean. Through personages of manual are foreigners studying Korean, and Korean - dialogues conduct on different themes in an internet-chat.Material of manual can be used for preparation to the different tests on Korean, such, as Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIК).