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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis qualitative research is designed to provide elaborative and insightful narratives of
Indonesian Korean as a Foreign Language (hereafter, KFL) learners. Research questions
include: (1) What are the sociocultural aspects of Korean language learning motivation and
experience of learners of KFL in Indonesia? (2) How do learners attribute values to Korean
language? Five females and one male partook in the study. I conducted semi-structured
interviews with them and analyzed the interview data phenomenologically and using narrative
inquiry. My study found that all of my informants had both integrative and instrumental
motivations. Holistically, both were equally distributed. However, in some cases, integrative
motivation appeared to be a stronger drive. Hence, both were summarized as their efforts to
embody ideal L2 self, one of the components of L2MSS by Dörnyei (2009). Ideal L2 self implies
that their motivations help them to reduce the discrepancies between their current and future
selves. Based on the analysis of their motivational domains, the ideologies of Korean language
circulating among them were found; (1) Korean as an Economic Commodity and (2) Korean for
Cosmopolitan Membership. Apparently, the two linguistic ideologies were also reflected in
their linguistic practices which further strengthened their linguistic investment. In light of their
investment in KFL, they projected ‘cosmopolitan’ identity. Additionally, all of these processes
revealed their commodification of Korean language competency into linguistic capitals which,
from the macro-level perspective, are convertible in the current linguistic market of Indonesia.