You know the words. Let’s get them out of your head.
90 minutes of actually speaking Korean — not studying it. Sinchon, Tuesdays, max 7.
- Tuesdays
- 90 min
- 문베어 Café, Sinchon
- Max 7
First session €25 · coffee not included
Your Korean isn’t the problem.
You’ve done the classes. You know the grammar. You can read this: 알아듣는데 말이 안 나와요.
Then you order in Korean — and the barista answers in English. Again.
It’s not that you can’t speak. It’s that you’ve never had a place where you had to. You don’t need more input. You need reps. (And no — not the “안녕하세요, 제 이름은 제시카” kind.)
90 minutes. One rule.
10 min — Warm up
English is fine. Coffee, small talk, exhale.
60 min — Korean only
This is the part you can’t get anywhere else. One full hour where English isn’t an option. It’ll feel awkward for about ten minutes. Then something clicks. I sit with you, but I don’t interrupt — I just take notes.
20 min — Fix & upgrade
Now we go through my notes. What you said, what a Seoul friend would’ve said instead. This is where “correct Korean” becomes “natural Korean.”
No levels. No tests. No homework. Just the hour of speaking your classes never gave you.
존댓말 is keeping you at arm’s length.
Same sentence, three distances:
Class taught you the bottom two. But nobody makes friends in 존댓말 — it’s the language of cashiers, professors, and people you’ll never text again. (And no, you can’t just say 당신 for “you.” That’s how arguments start.)
반말 is where Korean actually begins — jokes, nicknames, “야 뭐해.” No class can teach it, because you learn it the way Koreans do: with a friend, mid-conversation, getting it slightly wrong until you don’t.
That’s what Tuesdays are for.
From someone who was exactly where you are.
“I try to speak Korean to the locals here, but they always respond to me in English. After years of studying Korean back home, it feels like there’s no real way to use it with locals here.”
Hi, I’m Eungul.
Born and raised in Seoul. I speak four languages — Korean, English, Japanese, Nepali — and I learned three of them the hard way. So when your sentence comes out wrong, I know exactly which wall you just hit, because I’ve hit it in three languages.
I studied linguistics, got certified to teach Korean, taught English for years. But on Tuesdays I’m not your teacher. I’m the friend at the table who happens to know why Koreans say it that way — and tells you after, not mid-sentence.
Also runs GoGetKorea. Lives in Mangwon. Will absolutely talk about food.
One price. No tiers, no bundles.
First session — €25
Come see if this is your thing. Most people know by minute 40.
After that — €30
Per session, whenever you come. No subscription, no commitment, no “package deals” guilt-tripping you into week 6.
Coffee’s on you — we’re in a café, order what you like. Tuesdays, 문베어 Café, Sinchon. Max 7 seats.
First session €25 · coffee not included
Seoul Besties After Dark 🎤
First and third Tuesdays, some of us don’t go home after the session. We go to 노래방.
Same rule, looser grip: try Korean, English is fine. Turns out it’s easier to speak a language after you’ve screamed a ballad in it.
€5 if you were at that day’s session. €10 if you just want the 노래방.
Questions people actually ask
Is this a Korean class?
No. It’s a conversation table. You already have a class — this is where you use what it taught you. I don’t lecture; you talk, I take notes, we fix things at the end.
What level do I need?
If you can survive — slowly, awkwardly — for a few minutes in Korean, you’re in. If you know zero Korean, take a semester first, then come. Total beginners and this format don’t mix.
Will I be forced to speak?
Yes — gently. That’s the whole point. Max 7 people means there’s nowhere to hide, but also no audience. Everyone else is exactly as nervous as you.
What if I freeze mid-sentence?
You will. Everyone does. Nobody jumps in to rescue you in English, and thirty seconds later you find another way to say it. That moment is the product.
Do I need to prepare anything?
No homework. But your week in Seoul will hand you things — collect them:
- “친구가 ‘밥 한번 먹자’ 했는데 3주째 연락이 없어요. 이거 진심이에요?”
- “카톡 답장이 ‘ㅋ’ 하나만 왔어요. 화난 거예요?”
- “‘저기요’로 웨이터 불러도 진짜 괜찮은 거죠?”
The moments that make you go “wait, what?” — that’s the best fuel for the table.
Where and when exactly?
Tuesdays, 90 minutes, 문베어 Café in Sinchon, Seoul — a few minutes from Sinchon Station (Line 2). First session €25, after that €30. Coffee not included.
Tuesday’s coming.
First session €25 · coffee not included