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Korean youtube channels and media: superbeginner video comprehensible input all the way to beginner podcasts! There aren't a lot of TPRS resources for Korean at this level, so many preschooler/kids shows are included. There is an abridged 'complete beginner' list to cover your first hundred hours on my profile. Everything is vaguely ordered by difficulty.
My favorite channel back in the day! They have a very, very solid playlist for complete beginners!
A great playlist for the first few hours of Korean input - it's not long, but it's excellent for the absolute basics!
Starting with his basic A0 playlist! i do think the difficulty jump to his beginner playlist is pretty big, though.
Truly excellent SB playlist, and I will note that his Beginner playlist runs toward high beg / low int compared to some other channels (but is high quality!).
#5KIWI-Korean Input With Images: Korean 101 - Input for Beginners
Short, well-produced videos. Grammar, antonyms, commonly used words. Beginner to intermediate content!
Short sentences on a theme, has some hard-coded translated subtitles but clearly marks off sections in his videos. Really repetitive & clear. Could easily be used as a podcast after the complete beginner level.
Very simple, very intelligible vlog-style beginner CI with lots of excellent grocery/travel/routine vocab. Also a prolific channel!
High quality complete beginner, mid/high beginner, and low intermediate videos! At the easiest, about the same difficulty as the above.
Has two playlists for this level: Korean Short Stories Super Beginner & Beginner. Does more than one repeat in the same video.
#11Master Vocabulary (MAVOCA) - Korean
Short picture descriptions, repetitive and easy to understand. Generally varying quality, but there are a few hours of good content here!
Wonderful vlog-style beginner videos, some paid content. Great for vocab!!
Short drawing descriptions, not a lot of hours.
#14Yuno Korean
Lots of lovely vlog-style beginner content! Very repetitive, slightly more difficult vocab than you see above. Very high quality :)
A mix of beginner video games & easy podcast episodes.
Heavy on songs, but overall super comprehensible. Lots of number vocab, of course!
#17한글용사 아이야
Kids show & an absolute favorite media for beginners. Kind of like Power Rangers but with reading. Playful, well structured, excellent balance of repetition & storytelling. Many, many hours of content, and still airing.
Has superbeginner videos (which would rate easier) and some beginner CI mixed in with general grammar videos.
#19MUZZY Korean
* Paid / Subscription * Used to have a free trial; famous for English learning. High difficulty placement due to characters' voice affectations, singing, music overlay.
#20King Sejong Institute Foundation
Placed here for the PopPopping Korean playlist, which is similar to Muzzy. If you have interest, their 세종학당 한국어 초급 1 & 2 playlists are also great for grammar taught in monolingual Korean.
#21 태웅쌤 - Comprehensible Input Korean
In addition to his Complete Beginner playlist: video games. Varying levels; at this point, anything marked A1 & A2. Personally I recommend unpacking, Hidden Folks & The White Door first - anything point and click.
Might be AI? I can't tell & I don't watch them much, but overall they're prolific & they have some super easy videos.
Live action & animated show for preschoolers. Great repetition for numbers, shapes, colors, etc. Dubbed.
#24Comprehensible Korean Language
His Beginner-level playlist is great! Lots of video game stuff, a couple of traditional pictures & narration CI.
#25 꿀꿀! 페파는 즐거워 - 공식 채널 - Peppa Pig
A liberal amount of baby voices and oinking (꿀꿀), but with clear & slow speakers.
#26Tayo the Little Bus 꼬마버스 타요
The first real foray into preschool-level TV: harder than 한글용사 아이야, Blippi, and Peppa Pig, but great if you have a higher ambiguity tolerance. The public transit vehicles are surprisingly expressive & the adventures are fairly predictable/intuitive.
Tayo spin-off, higher difficulty but relatively easy to intuit gist of dialogue.
#28Pocoyo
Narration overlaying six-minute adventures with rare dialogue interjections.
#29Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 미키마우스 클럽하우스
* Paid / Subscription * Pretty strong/weird voice affectation, so not really highly recommended, but nevertheless repetitive & comprehensible.
#30KoreAnt
A lot like Storytime in Korean (above); short dialogues spoken with monotone narration, of varying difficulty. Placed closer to intermediate for majority of material.
#31Bluey 블루이
Hilarious kids show that many adults love. Not easy to understand every word, basically ever, but easy to pick up on some new nouns/adjectives & many common phrases. Et cetera.
#32Caillou 까이유
Kind of close in difficulty to Bluey! I feel like the vocab is more advanced but the speech is slower, and either way the plots are intuitive & simple for both!
Preschooler show with very simple plots. Good for geography vocab (cities & countries), and repetitive dialogue.
* Paid / Subscription * Yet another cute, intuitive preschooler show. More difficult than the above, but still doable depending on your ambiguity tolerance. Offers audio description.
#35Anyone Can Make It (Kiwi's Cooking Show)
A discontinued cooking channel with 250hrs+ content. She does eventually add in some English for the newer videos, but I find it very unobtrusive. Overall very comprehensible!
Was on the hunt for shows to bridge Bluey & Pokémon, and got into Octonauts! Actually crazy cute and watchable - more advanced vocab than some of the shows below, but still predictable & repetitive.
#37Easy Korean Listening with Julia
First podcast I could understand!!!!!!!
#38Hayden Kim
He's getting great at beginner CI!!! Relaxed narration, often has mixed difficulty in a single video so setting relatively high for variance.
#39akapinn 한국어
Super short comprehensible input stories with lots of translations & grammar explanations. Relatively high beginner, or maybe low intermediate.
Another kids show to work up to Pokémon! This is definitely more advanced than a lot of the above, but still comprehensible enough. (For me, started at bits & pieces à la Refold's levels of comprehension.)