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
EP26. Twenty, Once Again (두번째 스무살)
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In this episode, I reflect on what it means to feel twenty again —
not in age, but in direction.
In Korea, turning twenty is often the beginning of adulthood.
It is the time when many people start asking:
Who am I? What do I want to do with my life?
Now in my thirties,
after studying and living in different countries
and returning once again to Seoul,
I find myself asking those same questions.
Sometimes it feels confusing.
Sometimes it feels uncertain.
But I also believe that having the chance
to rethink my path is a quiet kind of blessing.
This is my “second twenty.” A season of rethinking,
restarting, and slowly choosing a new direction.
If you are also standing at a crossroads, wondering where to go next,
I hope this episode feels close to you.
We are still on our way. 화이팅!