Korean With Pops

You can speak Korean on your first morning in Seoul. Not read it, not memorize tables, speak it, and understand the answer that comes back. Korean With Pops is a sixteen-chapter spoken course: an English guide explains one small idea, a native speaker says it, you say it yourself in the pause, and the course quietly builds that idea into the next one until you are making sentences you were never taught as sentences. No alphabet lessons. No grammar charts. Just the engine of polite everyday Korean, one piece at a time, spelled the way it is actually said.

The course follows a traveler through South Korea: arrival at Incheon, the subway and the taxi, the two number systems and the won, banchan and Korean barbecue (and the rules of pouring soju), shopping in Myeongdong, Gyeongbokgung Palace, a DMZ tour, the hotel and the pharmacy, an invitation to a Korean home, the KTX to Gyeongju, and the fish market, beach and bathhouse of Busan. It is voiced by native Korean speakers, with a second native voice as the server, the market auntie, the clerk and the host, and it closes with a grand review and a gift: the English words already living inside Korean.

Compiled and edited by Pops. The narration is produced with digital voices.