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International professional organization
The International Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE; Korean: 국제한국어교육학회; Hanja: 國際韓國語敎育學會), founded in 1985, is the world's largest organization of Korean languageeducators, with over 1,200 members. Its first president was Fred Lukoff of the University of Washington.