Korean graded reader with audio, TOPIK 1 to 5
Jireader has 403 original Korean short stories in five levels, from complete beginner to advanced. Every story has audio narration, a tap-to-learn glossary and a comprehension quiz, and the words you meet go into a spaced-repetition review deck.
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The Nameless Movie
An old film sits in Grandmother's box with no title on it — no famous actors, no story anyone knows, just an ordinary family. So why has she watched it a hundred times?
14 sentences · ~7 min · teaches 8 new words
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Each level teaches one frequency band — L1 covers the 800 most common words.
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How Jireader works
Jireader is a graded reader: 403 Korean short stories, each written for one of five levels. Each level teaches one band of a 6,500-word Korean frequency list, and its prose is pitched at that TOPIK band. Read the stories in order and every new word arrives when you need it.
| Level | Stories | Words taught (frequency rank) | Sentences per story |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 · TOPIK 1초급 | 83 | 1–800 | 13–15 |
| Level 2 · TOPIK 2초중급 | 95 | 801–2,000 | 18–20 |
| Level 3 · TOPIK 3중급 | 94 | 2,001–3,500 | 24–28 |
| Level 4 · TOPIK 4중고급 | 71 | 3,501–5,000 | 36–41 |
| Level 5 · TOPIK 5고급 | 60 | 5,001–6,500 | 45–53 |
What every story includes
- Audio narration (every story), played sentence by sentence with the current sentence highlighted.
- A tap-to-learn glossary: tap an underlined word to see its meaning.
- An English translation of every sentence, one tap away.
- Grammar notes, each with an example sentence from the story.
- Checkpoint quizzes between parts and a final quiz: 5,741 questions in all, in eight tap-only question types.
- New words go into a spaced-repetition review deck.
Jireader is free
The placement check, the Hangul guide and the five Starter stories are open without an account. The other 398 stories need a free account, with no card.