I did a one year study abroad at Yonsei, and as a requirement from Yonsei, you need to take some Korean instruction. However, to meet this requirement, they allowed me to take a 0-unit credit/no-credit course through their graduate program called GSIS, which was just great. I couldn't imagine throwing away 6 units to the Yonsei KLI, and instead devoted those units to things like Marketing and Organizational Behavior.
The GSIS Korean course wasn't bad; it was a self-study fast paced course, and the instructor actually spoke English, so some instruction was in English, but mostly it was in Korean. It was very aggressive pace, which I loved because with some Japanese language background, the grammar is easy to understand. I can piece together quickly what I needed to learn to speak and what I could revisit later.
Though, unfortunately in the end, I found myself devoting more toward business courses than language studies. I really needed a private tutor and some serious time to keep up with the course, but then it's zero units and doesn't go on my transcript. I enjoyed it.
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