Lucien Brown is the Assistant Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oregon. His seminar focuses on the different forms of Korean speech, and in particular, he distinguishes two main types: honorific and non-honorific. He also offers his research on native Korean speakers, and how they are able to distinguish between honorific and non-honorific without verbal cues, but focusing on a complex system of tonal cues that are interlaced as layers in Korean speech.