Our journey began when co-founders Lee-Anne and Sung-Ju sat in a study cafe one day in May 2018. 

We crossed paths in a middle school in Busan in 2017. In 2018, we realised there weren’t any graded readers for Lee-Anne to practice Korean. As language teachers, we understand the immense benefits of easy-to-read books for language learners. In the study cafe in spring, we decided to write our own.

Keen to start on the project, we researched the basis of graded readers. We saw graded readers in English, Mandarin and Japanese as well-structured and high-quality. We spent the next two years developing our skills. Our vision had to materialise.

In 2021, we published ‘Spring Again and Summer Part One.’ This book is the first of the series, the Korean Classic Reader. This novella has become popular among beginners to start reading in Korean.

Some arguments suggest that graded readers are not authentic. They are not written for native readers but for language learners. The idea of graded readers is to build readers up to be able to read native-level books. Graded readers are carefully designed to be suitable for the reader’s level. Graded readers have lots of repetition, simple grammar and sentences, illustrations and audio.

Lang-Wich addresses the scarcity of quality graded readers in the Korean language. Currently, we write novellas and short stories suitable for high beginners. Our stories are fun, modern and easy to read.

Reading with us exposes you to new vocabulary in context with lots of chances to practice and remember them.