Learn Korean with Our Beloved Summer
Yes, Our Beloved Summer is a B1-level pick for Korean learners. Two ex-classmates are pulled back together by a documentary in this gentle rom-com. It is built on everyday conversation about dating, work, and school, with clear, well-enunciated speech and little jargon, which makes it a great B1 pick.
Key takeaways
- Our Beloved Summer is a B1-level pick for Korean, best suited to intermediate learners.
- A warm rom-com in clear, everyday conversational Korean.
- 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 14 of them.
- Expect everyday Korean such as 첫사랑 and 다큐멘터리.
- Watch it with Korean subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B1 (moderate)
- Best for
- intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 1 season, 16 episodes
- Original audio
- Korean
- Genre
- romance, coming-of-age, comedy
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 14 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 Our Beloved Summer
- 첫사랑
- first love (cheotsarang)
- 다큐멘터리
- documentary (dakyumenteori)
- 인연
- fateful connection (inyeon)
- 헤어지다
- to break up, to part (heeojida)
- 그리워하다
- to miss, to long for (geuriwohada)
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Our Beloved Summer good for learning Korean?
- Yes, at B1. The Korean is modern and clearly spoken, built on everyday dating and work conversation, so it is one of the friendliest K-dramas for intermediate learners with graded subtitles.