Korean to Stay Connected
For intermediate and advanced Korean learners who want to stay connected to Korean through quiet, personal stories.
Korean to Stay Connected is a slow podcast about language, memory, and everyday thoughts.
I am a Korean language teacher. I have taught Korean in several countries.
During my time teaching abroad, students often said:
“I want to keep studying Korean, but there’s nothing I can just listen to.”
This podcast is for learners who already know some Korean and want to maintain it — not through intense studying, but through calm, natural listening.
You don’t need to understand everything.
Just listening is enough.
If you’d like to speak Korean slowly like this,
you can find my 1:1 lessons here: https://www.italki.com/ko/teacher/7545999?lv=1
Korean to Stay Connected
EP15. A Small Heart, A Big Feeling (Korean Hand Gesture: 손하트)
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In this episode,
I talk about a small but meaningful Korean hand gesture —
the finger heart, often called a 손하트.
At first, the heart looks almost too small to matter.
But over time, I realized how simple and easy it is
to express affection with just one hand.
I share how I found myself making this small heart
when taking photos with friends while living abroad,
and how, without words,
my friends slowly started copying the gesture too.
This episode is about how
a tiny hand movement can carry warmth,
gratitude, and affection —
and how Korean ways of expressing emotion
can be quiet, gentle, and deeply human.
If big words feel difficult today,
maybe a small heart is enough.
🎧 Take this episode lightly,
and think about how you show care
in your own small ways.