Learn Korean with Itaewon Class
Yes, Itaewon Class is a B2-level pick for Korean learners. An ex-convict builds a bar to take down the family that ruined him in this webtoon-based drama. The modern setting helps, but boardroom, food-service, and legal vocabulary plus rough banmal push it to B2.
Key takeaways
- Itaewon Class is a B2-level pick for Korean, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- A revenge-and-startup drama with business and street register.
- It runs 1 season, 16 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real Korean listening.
- Against the 18 other Korean titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 4 of them.
- Expect everyday Korean such as 복수 and 소신.
- Watch it with Korean subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B2 (challenging)
- Best for
- upper-intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 1 season, 16 episodes
- Original audio
- Korean
- Genre
- drama, revenge, business
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 4 of 18 other Korean titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 19 Korean titles
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Korean words you'll hear in Itaewon Class
- 복수
- revenge (boksu)
- 소신
- conviction, firm principle (sosin)
- 창업
- founding a business (chang-eop)
- 술집
- bar, pub (suljip)
- 감옥
- prison (gamok)
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Itaewon Class good for learning Korean?
- Yes, at B2. The story is modern and gripping, but the business and legal vocabulary and casual banmal make it an upper-intermediate listen best paired with graded subtitles.