Korean youtube channels and media that can be comprehensible for beginners! There is an abridged 'complete beginner' list to cover your first hundred hours. Everything is vaguely ordered by difficulty. For the OG Immersion purists: levels two and three.
A great playlist for the first few hours of Korean input - it's not long, but it's excellent for the absolute basics!
* Paid / Subscription * Grammar in context, with tons of pantomime and repetition. Absolutely useful at no experience. I do only recommend the first playlist, 초급 Level 1-A, which I watched three or four times.
#3KIWI-Korean Input With Images: Korean 101 - Input for Beginners
Short, well-produced videos. Grammar, antonyms, commonly used words. Beginner to intermediate content!
High quality complete beginner, mid/high beginner, and low intermediate videos! At the easiest, about the same difficulty as the above.
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.
Has two playlists for this level: Korean Short Stories Super Beginner & Beginner. Does more than one repeat in the same video.
#8Master Vocabulary (MAVOCA) - Korean
Short picture descriptions, repetitive and easy to understand. Generally varying quality, but there are a few hours of good content here!
Short drawing descriptions, not a lot of hours.
A mix of beginner video games & easy podcast episodes.
Heavy on songs, but overall super comprehensible. Lots of number vocab, of course!
#12한글용사 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.
#13MUZZY Korean
Famous for English learning, offers free trial. High difficulty placement due to characters' put-on voices, singing, music overlay.
#14 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.
Live action & animated show for preschoolers. Great repetition for numbers, shapes, colors, etc. Dubbed.
#16Comprehensible Korean Language
His Beginner-level playlist is great! Lots of video game stuff, a couple of traditional pictures & narration CI.
#17 꿀꿀! 페파는 즐거워 - 공식 채널 - Peppa Pig
A liberal amount of baby voices and oinking (꿀꿀), but with clear & slow speakers. Dubbed.
#18Tayo 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.
#20Pocoyo
Narration overlaying six-minute adventures with rare dialogue interjections. Dubbed.
#21Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 미키마우스 클럽하우스
* Paid / Subscription * Pretty strong/weird voice affectation, so not really highly recommended, but nevertheless repetitive & comprehensible.
#22Bluey 블루이
Hilarious kids show that many adults love. Could be low intermediate depending on the episode.
* Paid / Subscription * Yet another cute, intuitive preschooler show. More difficult than the above, but still doable depending on your ambiguity tolerance.
#24최수수 ChoiSusu - Korean Podcast for Beginners
Probably the easiest podcast! Easy vocab & low beginner topics. Gives transcript/translation, around 12 minutes.
Her Easy Korean Listening👂podcast varies pretty significantly in difficulty, and does repeat more than once in the same video. Slow speech, music in the background, transcript/translation given.
Super short episodes (3-5 minutes!), clear & simple speech.