Korean Short Stories

Learn Korean with short stories!

Beginner & Intermediate levels available.

Practice Listening

Practice Reading

Understand Grammar

Learn Vocabulary

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Made for Learners

We made these short story worksheets for people who love learning Korean, and are looking for fun new ways to practice & learn the language.

We hope you like them! ♡

For Beginners

Read "길을 잃어버린 개" which is a story about a dog who gets lost in the forest.

For Intermediate

Read "지연이와 보물" which is a story about a girl who finds treasure.

What do we love about these worksheets?

These worksheets come with a ton of amazing language tools, including an audio recording, sentence breakdowns, grammar explanations, vocab lists & flashcards.

There's also comprehension questions and an English translation in the back!

Actually understand what you're reading

We've added lots of tools to help increase your reading comprehension.

Vocabulary

Grammar

Color-Coding

Korean is an agglutinative language, which means grammar and vocabulary often merge together. Because of this, one of the hardest parts of reading Korean is actually identifying what it is that you're reading.

In these worksheets, each sentence is color-coded so that you can correctly and easily identify vocabulary and grammar.

Vocab & Grammar Tables

The problem with a lot of reading resources is that they don't list the included vocabulary and grammar. As a result, you spend most of your time going back and forth with a translation app or website in order to find out what things mean.

In our worksheets, we've done this step for you. But keep in mind - the vocab & grammar is only listed out the first time you encounter it. After that, it's on you to remember it!

Grammar Explanations

Each new grammar form you encounter is carefully explained so that you understand what it means, plus we provide additional examples of that grammar form in use.

Provided examples are designed to re-use grammar and vocabulary that you have previously encountered in order to maintain comprehensible input.

Seen Grammar

New Grammar

New Vocab

Seen Vocab

Retain Information

The first time you encounter a new vocabulary word or grammar form, we explain it to you. But from that point on, those words become grey in the color-breakdown. Everytime you encounter grey color-blocked text, you are forced to think back and remember what it means.

This encourages you to retain information as you progress through the story.

By the end of the story, you'll be amazed by how much you've learned!

Additional Features

More things you'll love

Audio Recording

Listen to the story spoken aloud by a native Korean speaker. See how much you can understand and improve your listening skills.

Recap Pages

Each story is divided into Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. At the end of each Part, you are asked to do two things:

Identify eight vocabulary words you would like to remember
Pick one grammar form seen in the chapter to learn more about

English Translation

Throughout the book we ask you to translate each sentence one-by-one. In the back of the book we provide our own translation so that you can compare.

Vocab Flashcards

At the end of the book there is a complete vocabulary list, containing all the vocabulary used in the story. Additionally, there is a link to a free flashcard deck on Quizlet where you can practice and learn that vocabulary on your own.