Learn Korean with It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Yes, It's Okay to Not Be Okay is a B2-level pick for Korean learners. A caregiver and a children's-book author heal each other in this beautifully shot romance set around a psychiatric hospital. The mental-health terminology and stylised, fairy-tale narration raise the register above everyday speech, making it B2.
Key takeaways
- It's Okay to Not Be Okay is a B2-level pick for Korean, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- A healing romance with literary narration and clinical vocabulary.
- 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 괜찮다 and 동화.
- 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
- romance, drama, healing
- 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 It's Okay to Not Be Okay
- 괜찮다
- to be okay (gwaenchanta)
- 동화
- fairy tale (donghwa)
- 보호자
- guardian, caregiver (bohoja)
- 상처
- wound, scar (sangcheo)
- 환자
- patient (hwanja)
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Frequently asked questions
- Is It's Okay to Not Be Okay good for learning Korean?
- Yes, at B2. The romance is modern but the psychiatric setting and poetic narration lift the vocabulary above beginner level, so graded subtitles help you keep up.