Dongne: Learn Korean
Byoungho Kim Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Dongne: Learn Korean is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Byoungho Kim. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated August 22, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 22
- 2026 · v1.0.1
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About Dongne: Learn Korean
Stop translating. Start reading the room. In Korean the same words can mean four different things depending on the face saying them. Dongne teaches the part textbooks skip — by putting you inside webtoon scenes and asking what you would actually say. LOOK FIRST, READ SECOND Every question starts with a picture: an expression, a gesture, a place. You work out the situation before you ever see a translation. WATCH THEM REACT Pick a reply and the character's face changes — warm, awkward, or annoyed. There is no hidden affection meter. You just see it. SAME WORDS, DIFFERENT FACE 괜찮아! / 괜찮아… / 됐어, 괜찮아. / 괜찮아? — four scenes, four meanings, one phrase. A NEIGHBOURHOOD, NOT A MENU Cafe, convenience store, subway, school, office, home. Twenty-four episodes, 192 scenes, unlocked as you learn. SLANG WITH A SAFETY LABEL 아아, 존맛, ㅇㅋ and ㅋㅋㅋ come paired with when NOT to use them — and with the version you say to a shop assistant instead. REVIEW THAT REMEMBERS THE SCENE Yesterday's expressions come back in the scene that taught them, on a spaced schedule. Context is what makes them stick. One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads. Twelve episodes are free. WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE No account, no sign-in, no servers, no analytics. Your progress never leaves your phone — the app makes no network requests at all. Interface: English, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어.
What’s new
Version 1.0.1 · Updated August 22, 2026
The art is here. • Every scene now has hand-drawn webtoon art — faces, backgrounds, objects. The questions are finally something you look at before you read. • The neighbourhood map is a real map: the cafe, convenience store, subway, campus, office and home each stand in their own illustration, with the places you haven't opened yet shown in grey. • Content fixes: items where two answers were defensible, items that stayed casual even after you fixed them, and one explanation that described the wrong word. • Cleaned up romanizations and removed a duplicate entry from the tone dictionary.
App privacy
The developer, Byoungho Kim, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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