Authors

koko ai's blog and grammar pages are written by a small group of contributors: a Seoul-based Korean teacher, a Sydney-based adult learner, and a Korean-American essayist. Different backgrounds, deliberately. Korean-as-a-foreign-language content reads better when the explanation comes from the angle that fits the topic.

Min-jung Park
Korean Language Teacher
Particles, politeness, and 90s ballads.
Min-jung holds an M.A. in Korean Linguistics from Seoul National University and has taught Korean to international students at…
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Alex Patel
Adult Korean Learner
Self-studied Korean from 'Crash Landing on You' onward.
Alex is a Sydney-based software engineer who fell into Korean during a 2019 binge of Crash Landing on You. He self-studied…
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Sori Kim
Bicultural Essayist
Third-culture lens on Korean concepts.
Sori is a Korean-American writer based in Los Angeles. Born to Korean immigrant parents, she was raised bilingual but never…
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