Beginner stories
Original Korean stories written for this level, with comprehension questions.
Short stories
20 original stories written for this level, each with a comprehension check.
마지막 삼각김밥
A tired office worker finds her usual late-night snack sold out at the convenience store.
2호선 한 바퀴
Hajun takes the subway across Seoul to a friend's birthday party and closes his eyes for a moment.
카페 키오스크
In a neighbourhood café with no staff, a young designer helps an older woman with the ordering machine.
위층 피아노
Doyun loves his new flat, except for the same simple song played badly upstairs every night.
휴대폰이 어디 있어요?
Late for work, Subin turns her flat upside down looking for her phone.
일요일 영상 통화
Every Sunday a couple video-call Haeun's mother, who still hasn't worked out where to point the camera.
두부의 비밀
Jiho's white cat keeps getting fatter even though Jiho feeds him less, so one Saturday he follows him outside.
영숙 씨의 첫날
A retired primary school teacher starts English classes at sixty-four, and her new teacher looks at her for a long time.
해운대 사진
For their fortieth anniversary, an older couple take the KTX to Busan with an old photo in their bag.
도어록 비밀번호
Jiu moves into her first studio flat in Seoul and sets a very difficult door code.
할머니의 감
Every autumn Jiwoo's grandmother sends her a box of persimmons from the countryside, but this year the box is late.
한라산은 어디에 있어요?
Haeun finally takes a holiday on Jeju to see Hallasan, but the weather has other plans.
미역국 열 그릇
Minjun decides to cook seaweed soup for his mother's birthday for the very first time.
첫눈
Two bank clerks in Chuncheon promise to have coffee on the day of the first snow, but the snow comes at three in the morning.
다람쥐와 도토리
A small fable: a squirrel hides hundreds of acorns in autumn and forgets where every one of them is.
민수 씨의 컵
An office worker in Icheon spends his Saturdays at a pottery class, trying to make one good cup.
운동 일기
An office worker keeps a diary of his first week at the gym.
선생님께
A young baker in Jeonju writes to her primary school teacher after twenty years.
아빠의 물고기
Every Saturday Hajun and his father go fishing, and every Saturday they come home with fish.
안나 씨의 첫 김장
Anna from Australia joins her Korean in-laws in the countryside near Haenam for her first day of kimchi-making.