The lecture on classic Korean novels helps to see familiar plots about love, choice, and ingenuity through a different cultural lens. Through folk works, comparisons with Russian fairy tales, and discussions about mentality, listeners will be able to approach the literary tradition of Korea more closely and feel its vibrant character. The classic Korean novel is a world where love, trials, resourcefulness, social rules, and notions of fate coexist. Behind the vivid plots lies a way to understand how people from another culture explained the structure of the world, what they valued in heroes, and which qualities they considered truly important. This is why a lecture on old Korea can be interesting far beyond the narrow circle of those who are already fascinated by the East. At the center of the meeting are traditional Korean novels and their comparison with Russian folk tales. This perspective allows one to notice how differently yet remarkably similarly different cultures tell stories of love, cunning, loyalty, trials, and hope for a happy outcome. Through a familiar genre, it will be easier for listeners to see the peculiarities of Korean worldview, understand which motifs recur in the plots, how characters are structured, and why these texts maintain interest even after centuries. A separate topic will be a discussion about the Korean mentality. The talk will cover who Koreans are, which cultural traits are particularly noticeable in literature, and how national notions of duty, feelings, family ties, and ingenuity are reflected in folk works. This makes the meeting useful for those who want to better understand Korea not through random stereotypes, but through texts that have enshrined important features of historical and cultural experience. The speaker of the lecture is Elizaveta Fedoseeva, a translator and teacher of the Korean language, who studied in Korea and graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St. Petersburg State University.