What If You Could Learn 🇰🇷 Korean by Enjoying Your Favorite Media?

See it in action right now !

Unknown words are underlined in red, Seen in yellow and Known in green. When a word has multiple possible definitions and mixed states it is again underlined as Seen . Known words are only shown when you press Shift on desktop.

농부는 아직 결혼하지 않고 혼자 살았다.

Click on a word to see the tooltip

About me

Like you, I wanted to learn Korean but I was fed up with the existing tools to learn through immersion.

So, I made Kimchi Reader.

Hopefully you too will enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Features

Immerse with Videos

Youtube, Netflix, Viki and your local videos and subtitles

Words breakdown

See exactly how the words are formed

Grammar

부럽다

부러워했다

Mark your knowledge

Start tracking your knowledge

Unknown

Seen

Known

Statistics

Visualize your progression

Start tracking yours

Chart of distribution of known/seen words per level example

Works on mobile

Install the PWA to get the full experience.

Web Extension on Android

Download Firefox on Android and use the extension with YouTube.

Import content to read

EPUB, Text, Markdown or extract from websites

Offline Reader

Continue to read even without internet

Frequency list

Learn the most common words first with the frequency list.

Customizable Reader

Customize colors, fonts, size, etc.

Dark mode

Easier on your eyes

Fast & Lightweight

Built for speed and efficiency

Sentence Mining

The ultimate way of acquiring new vocabulary

Find a sentence with only 1 unknown word
Make a card out of it
Sync your card with Anki

Screenshot of Sentence Mining in Kimchi Reader

Screenshot from the amazing youtube channel Didi의 한국어 Podcast

Recommendation System

Kimchi Reader's recommendation system has analyzed over 45,000 pieces of Korean content, including shows, movies, videos, and books. By comparing your current knowledge with the vocabulary in these materials, we find the perfect match for you. This ensures you always have something enjoyable and easy to understand, so you'll never run out of interesting content to explore.

Import your vocabulary

From Anki, Migaku, LingQ or any text.

Import

Discord community

A friendly community of fellow learners!

Join server

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Is This Product Right for You?

Great for absolute beginners too!

Even if you're just starting out, our product can be incredibly useful. There is some absolute beginner content on YouTube and a few initial books from 두루책방.com. As you progress, you'll be able to make use of the full power of the tool and experience all its benefits.

A perfect fit for

Learners with a vocabulary of 500+ Korean words

Has basic grammar understanding

Want to learn through immersion

Read anything, anywhere

Parse any website Utilize our Web Extension to conveniently parse and extract content from any website for a seamless reading experience in our reader.

eBooks Using Kimchi Reader with an eBook is a breeze – just import your EPUB file in our web app, and you're all set to enjoy the enhanced reading experience.

Personalize Select your preferences using the popup dictionary or side-by-side mode. Tailor the font family, size, and spacing to your liking. You can even adjust colors if desired!

Continue on mobile Take your Korean learning on the go with Kimchi Reader, as it is compatible with your mobile devices.

Language Learning through Videos

Browser Extension

Youtube

Netflix

Viki

Desktop

Mobile

Web application

Your own video and subtitle files

Desktop

Mobile

Accelerate your vocabulary growth with Sentence Mining

What is Sentence Mining?

Sentence Mining is the process of finding sentences in native material and adding them to your flashcard deck. The folks at Refold made a good explanation and a guide

Why Sentence Mine?

Sentence Mining is one of the most efficient ways to learning vocabulary. It is also extremely fun as you are consuming the content you enjoy.

How does it work?

Find a good 1T sentence 1T (One target) sentences are those in which you have just one unknown element, making it easier for you to learn.

Mine the sentence Click on Mine and a popup will appear with all the information extracted. The best ones are when the audio is also extracted.

Desktop & Mobile

Sync with Anki Get the addon from Anki's side, and initially set your card sync preferences. After that, a simple click on Sync will do the job every time.

Requires Desktop

Anki Addon

Study your vocabulary on Anki You're now prepared to tackle the hard work and become a Chad!

Desktop & Mobile

It is just that great