Resources for Korean

Korean is an east-Asian language with approximately 80 million native speakers in the Korean peninsula and also recognized as a minority language in the Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of China. Korean is written using a writing system called Hangul, which was invented only recently in the 15th century. Previously, Korean was a primarily spoken language, only utilizing Chinese characters (“hanja”) to record their history. Hanja are still used today in limited contexts.

NIKIA RECOMMENDS!

Our wonderful partner Nikia (@studylang) recently graduated with a degree in Modern Languages and has been studying Korean for the last year. See her top recommendations below!

GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

TEXTBOOKS

Reading & Writing

BOOKS

* Note: Some sites may not ship to your country. Most of the books I’ve found I bought while visiting the country. I recommend searching using key words in Korean or using language filters.

WRITTEN NEWS SOURCES

  • Korea Times (easy Korean news)

  • Chosun (site also translated in Chinese, Japanese, English)

BLOGS & SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

  • TBD

speaking & Listening

AUDIO PROGRAMS

Entertainment & Immersion

TV & MOVIES

  • Browse Netflix by Audio (select Korean in dropdown list)

    • Unogs can show you a list of what’s available on Netflix in South Korea (requires Netflix and VPN)

    • Parasite (dark humor thriller movie; Academy Award, Golden Globe, etc. awards)

    • Squid Game (series following hundreds of debt-striken players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games)

KOREAN YOUTUBERS

 Worksheets & Planners

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