About
A small primer on Korea.
Made in Seoul by one person who thought foreigners deserved a friendlier starting line than a Wikipedia rabbit-hole.
What this site is
Now Korea is a free, static website that packs a handful of playful tools to help foreigners — travelers, K-pop fans, new arrivals, curious internet wanderers — get a feel for Korea in a few minutes. You pick your own Korean name, compute your Korean age, take a quiz, browse 150+ Korean dishes, convert your money to won, wander through landmark photos, and learn slang Koreans actually use.
What it isn't
- It isn't a travel booking site. There's nothing to purchase here.
- It isn't an academic source. Descriptions are meant to be friendly introductions, not citations.
- It isn't affiliated with the Korean government, any tourism board, or the featured celebrities or brands.
How the content is made
Every Korean name, dish, meme, place, holiday, and quiz question is manually curated with an eye toward what a foreign visitor actually encounters on a trip — on a menu, in a KakaoTalk message, at a bus stop, on the news. The aim is accuracy and warmth rather than completeness.
Celebrity photos and the hero landscape come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licenses — attribution lives on each image's Wikipedia page. Weather is provided by Open-Meteo, and exchange rates by Frankfurter (European Central Bank data). No user data is collected — see Privacy for details.
Why I made it
Korea has become easy to watch on Netflix and hard to actually meet. Even friendly introductions are hidden behind paywalls, dense blogs, or travel guides twenty pages long. This is my attempt at a friendlier starting line — a scroll, a couple of clicks, a smile, and then you know a little bit more than you did five minutes ago.
Who's behind it
One person — based in Seoul — writing, curating, and maintaining this as a side project. If you spot a translation error, a dish description that's out of date, or a meme that Korea has clearly moved on from, please send a note — the site gets better with help from people who know Korea.
Contact
eorbchoi@gmail.com · or the contact form.