đ°đˇ Korea Tools
Eleven tools for the questions that come up around Korea and the Korean language — writing your name in Hangul, working out which counting system a situation needs, converting a size or a recipe measurement. Each one is built from the actual rule or the actual data, and says so on the page.
Your name in Korean
Korean Name Generator
A real Korean name, with surnames drawn in proportion to how common they actually are.
My Name in Korean
Your own name written in Hangul, using the spellings Koreans actually use.
Learning the language
Korean Numbers Converter
Both counting systems side by side, and which one each situation needs.
Korean Particle Picker
ě or ë? The final consonant decides, and this shows you which and why.
Korean Counter Finder
ę°, ëŞ , ë§ëŚŹ â the counter word Korean requires between number and noun.
Korean Date & Time Reader
The hour is native Korean, the minute is Sino. Here is how a date and a time are said.
Korean Won in Words
How a price is read aloud, and why Koreans count in ë§ rather than thousands.
Living and visiting
Korean Age Calculator
Your age under the law Korea adopted in 2023, next to the count it replaced.
Korean School Grade
ě´3? ęł 1? What grade a birth year lands in, and the US and UK equivalents.
Korean Size Converter
Clothing and shoe sizes, worked out from measurements rather than labels.
Korean Cooking Measurements
A Korean recipe cup is 200 ml, not 240. Convert ěťľ, í°ě and ě˘ ě´ěťľ.
Why these are grouped together
Korean answers a lot of everyday questions differently from English, and usually for a reason rather than by accident. It counts in units of ten thousand, so a price has to be read in a different rhythm. It keeps two entire number systems and splits the work between them, so telling the time uses both in one breath. It picks grammatical particles by the last consonant of the word in front, which sounds arbitrary until you notice it keeps vowels and consonants alternating.
Most of these tools exist because the answer is mechanical once you know the rule, but the explanations available in English tend to be long articles rather than something you can put a word into. Where a rule has a real exception — and several do — the page names it rather than smoothing it over.