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Beginner’s Guide to Living in Korea

About this course

Get insiders' tips on living in Korea from Angela Park and Peter Bint. Both of them have lived in Korea for more than 10 years now and through this course, they share real-life tips and information that can be difficult to obtain from books or government websites, about topics such as taxes, dating, driving, etc. Nothing can beat direct experiences, but before you start living or spending some time in Korea, listening to these entertaining conversations will help you better prepare for your time in Korea!

Target level

all levels

What can you achieve through this course?

  • Acquire fundamental knowledge about living in Korea
  • Learn a bunch of real-life vocabulary words and expressions, and related cultural background

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Lecturers

Angela

Peter

Course language

English

What can you find inside the course?

  • 10 different topics related to living in Korea discussed in detail
  • A list of vocabulary words used in each lesson with detailed explanation

Table of Contents

  1. Eating out (์™ธ์‹)
  2. Education (๊ต์œก ์ œ๋„)
  3. Medical services (์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค)
  4. Driving (์šด์ „)
  5. Trash disposal (์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์ถœ)
  6. Paying taxes (์„ธ๊ธˆ ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€)
  7. Housing (์ฃผ๊ฑฐ ์‹œ์„ค)
  8. Convenience stores (ํŽธ์˜์ )
  9. Using the bank (์€ํ–‰ ์ด์šฉ)
  10. Dating (์—ฐ์•  ๋ฌธํ™”)

This course is exclusively available to subscribers.

Join now to begin your Korean learning journey!

Reviews

  1. Andrea Vernengo,

    This keeps happening to meโ€ฆ Iโ€™ve been a premium member for a while but sometimes I canโ€™t access to the coursesโ€ฆ.

  2. Viet Ha,

    Hi this course is great but i cannot excess the premium section eventhough I have subscribed premium, that’s sad.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Hi Viet Ha, Could you send an email to us?

      • Oswin Grochowski,

        I seem to be having the same problem.

      • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

        Please send us an email, and we will assist you with it. ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you!

  3. denise abellera,

    This is the best course I’ve listened to so far. I learned a lot about the culture. Hope there are more episodes!! ๐Ÿ™‚

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for your lovely comment! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  4. Hani,

    i learn Korean because i want to visit Korea some day and this course is just perfect, it is helping me familiarize with the culture an the environment and what awaits me. thanks peter and Angela for the insight. thank TTMIK for facilitating it so they could share the experience with us.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you! ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Ian Paul B. Saligumba,

    Just finished watching Lesson 1 and I do like it ๐Ÿ’œ More lessons like this please!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for your lovely comment! โ˜บ๏ธ

  6. Brenda Avila,

    My question is… where are the other 100 episodes that are needed in my life? I LOOOOVED this series. Thanks so much for collaborating with such lovely, charismatic and knowledgeable people. ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ˜Š

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for your lovely words. ๐Ÿ™‚ Hope you enjoy studying Korean with us!

  7. Weronika,

    About trash… I believe that you should put milk cartons into the plastics because it’s not pure paper. At least this is how it is in Poland. You can’t put dirty paper or paper with metal or plastic elements into the paper bin, because it will negatively impact recycling. Every place has slightly different rules depending on which company takes care of the recycling process.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts on recycling. We should take recycling more seriously to help our environment. ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you for studying Korean with us!

  8. Franziska,

    This course was really fun and filled with many interesting information. Hope it will be continued. Thanks to Angela and Peter.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for your lovely comment. ๐Ÿ™‚ We are glad you enjoyed it!

  9. Jyra Almodiel,

    I love this segment. This is a great course to listen to while taking Level Courses. I learned a lot from Angela and Peter and they have great tandem. I hope to see the two of them more in the future.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for your nice feedback! Enjoy studying with us. ๐Ÿ™‚

  10. Paloma Garcรญa,

    This was really interesting to watch!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying Korean with us!

  11. Roberta Morrow,

    Is there information about getting the type of visa that would allow a person to stay in Korea for an extended period of time? Also, recommendations for job seeking?

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      You can join our Discord server: https://bit.ly/3gFi8M1
      There are plenty of other learners who might answer your questions. ๐Ÿ™‚
      Happy studying!

  12. Roberta Morrow,

    This information is wonderful. I was wondering if it would be possible to discuss pricing for the various types of dwelling’s? I would like to plan for these expenses.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for studying with us!

  13. Brandon Chia,

    This course is amazing. I plan to move to Korea in the future and i would love more longer videos with Angela and Peter with in depth information regarding looking for jobs, common etiquette and cultural differences. I also am wondering how Koreans would usually react to a foreigner trying to speak their language.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      It depends on people, but we mostly try to speak their language if we can ๐Ÿ™‚ I guess that’s because we want to make them feel comfortable. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋Œ“๊ธ€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ! ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ณต๋ถ€ ํ™”์ดํŒ… ๐Ÿ™‚

  14. Bridget,

    This was a great course to learn about Living in Korea. I have never gotten the opportunity to travel there, but I do hope to go and live there for at least a short period of time. The information in this video series was not only useful, but the hosts were entertaining as well.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      ๊ฐ•์˜๊ฐ€ ๋„์›€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ป์š” ๐Ÿ™‚ Hope you enjoy learning from other courses !

  15. Haley,

    I’ve been in Korea for 5 years. This would have been invaluable before arriving! Thanks for putting this together! Also, sister solidarity with Angela regarding the bank jargon. To this day I dread trips to the bank. I’m working on it!

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thank you for learning Korean with us ! ๐Ÿ™‚

  16. Anabel Arroyo,

    I really enjoyed this course. Angela and Peter are very likeable and they explain everything in a very candid and clear way. I hope a second installment will come.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      So glad that you enjoyed this course ๐Ÿ™‚ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค !

  17. YiXing Wang,

    This is literally surviving book for people who is new to Korean, and it’s super decent. Btw, tipping culture do sucks.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      Thanks for the comment!

  18. VIC IP,

    Really interesting! I canโ€™t wait for more

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      We’re glad that you liked it! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์•ˆ์ œ๋ผ๋ž‘ ํ”ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ข‹๋„ค์š”.

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      ๋„ค! ๋‘ ๋ถ„ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ ์ข‹์ฃ ! ๐Ÿ˜

  20. Festrรฉ Yvan,

    ์ •๋ง ์ข‹๋‹ค . I love it. I feel like I just wanna leave right away and go live in Korea. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค .

    • TalkToMeInKorean Staff,

      We will welcome you ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you for learning Korean with us