This marks two years of learning Korean with Tycoon. How's the progress? Still learning, but I can definitely feel the difference. I read faster now, my pronunciation, listening, and reading comprehension have improved. Speaking & overall understanding are still the hardest, so we're still working on those. During my trip to Korea, two moments made me smile: chatting with a taxi driver (didn't catch everything, but enough to keep it going 😅), and asking staff to remove shrimp from a dish for my friend's allergic son. Small wins, but they meant a lot. Our classes have evolved to fit my learning style better - sentence making, reading comprehension, and knowing what to focus on. If you're looking for a Korean teacher, I'd genuinely recommend Tycoon. The right teacher is whoever makes you want to keep showing up, and with Tycoon's help, I can't wait to see how much more I can improve.

Tycoon is truly an excellent teacher, mentor, and person: I'm Korean-American and have had many many teachers in the past. I have even studied Korean in Korea at Yonsei University. But Tycoon is quite exceptional. He's hard-working, precise, but offers suggestions and corrections with kindness, understanding, and compassion too. Every lesson is loaded with words, expressions, grammar points. Most of all, he listens and listens with care. For many years I had an ambivalent relationship to the Korean language but Tycoon, with his patience and precision, has encouraged me to build or rebuild a bridge to my heritage language. With Tycoon, I will get there eventually, one plank at a time.

Patient, understanding and fun as usual, I always look forward to our lessons :)

I've been going down on my 10 lesson package of news article based lessons with Tycoon more quickly than expected. Although I may be punching above my weight a little bit, I like learning languages organically anyway and these news articles give me a chance to be exposed to all sorts of new vocabulary and expressions, while learning about what's happening in Korea. I enjoy it a lot. I'm also seeking his guidance on pronunciation and intonation in the class through oral reading, which is very helpful. I always appreciate his patience as well as his depth of knowledge and willingness to provide a little more than just a word.

Tycoon is an amazing teacher. He always explains things clearly and also provides context which makes learning Korean easier and more fun

Tycoon is an amazing teacher