Huang doesn't know anything about Korean history, but hopefully this isn't going to be a major problem. She supposes that if she needs to learn a new language Korean is fine and it seems likely this will be the result. Most of the other kids appear to be speaking Korean, so perhaps she will mostly study on her own.
Marcy heard Korean in the cradle but doesn't actually know much about the history of the place; outside the Scholomance there are more efficient ways to learn spells. She gives the room a once-over for lurking mals and, finding none, takes the seat next to Huang. Is this one of the ones where they get textbooks if they don't expect anything one way or another?
Yup. Huang has a textbook. It has some Chinese and some Korean on the cover, suggesting that this is one of those classes that sticks you with a language, but that's okay, she didn't have one picked out. "Good morning. My name is Yushi Huang," she says, when Marcy sits next to her.
"Marcy Park. Pleased to meet you." And her textbook (all Korean) has made itself known while she was looking at Huang's, nice. It probably does not start with a spell for turning bears into humans or vice versa, because that sounds beyond the ability of a freshman and also like a terrible idea, but it might have something else good.
It does not have a shapeshifting spell but it does have one for transmuting food! Huang transcribes the hanja very carefully so she can look up how they're pronounced in Korean later. She reads ahead as fast as possible since she's going to have to skip classes once the maintenance requests are coming in.