Kimchi Reader Chrome extension icon

Kimchi Reader

👥 2K+ users
📦 v0.20.3
💾 99.21MiB
📅 2026-04-29
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Overview

🎯 WHO IS THIS FOR?
You know 500+ Korean words. You want to learn from real Korean content — YouTube, Netflix, novels, news — but looking up words constantly kills the flow. Kimchi Reader fixes that. Use it alongside your textbooks, classes, or any other study method.

📖 WHAT THE EXTENSION DOES
Hover over any Korean word on any website to get an instant popup with definitions, grammar breakdown, hanja origins, idioms, and frequency rank. Both English and Korean monolingual definitions. No copy-pasting, no tab switching.

🔍 Popup dictionary on any Korean website
🎬 Dual Korean-English subtitles on YouTube, Netflix, and Viki
📊 Vocabulary tracking (Unknown → Seen → Known) — words change color as you learn, and you get detailed stats on your vocabulary growth and reading comprehension
⛏️ One-click sentence mining with Anki export

📈 TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Mark words as you learn them and watch your stats grow. See your known word count, vocabulary breakdown by frequency, comprehension percentage on any content, daily activity time, and more. Everything syncs across devices.

🚀 THE FULL PLATFORM
The extension is part of a larger Korean immersion platform at kimchi-reader.app:
🔎 Content recommendations — find YouTube videos, Netflix shows, and books matched to your level from a catalog of 350,000+ items
📚 Built-in document reader — import Korean books and texts (.epub, .md) and read with the same popup dictionary
🏆 Leaderboards, curated content lists, community features, and more
📱 Android app + iOS (beta)

💳 PAID PRODUCT
Kimchi Reader is a paid subscription with a 7-day free trial (no credit card required). Used by 1,000+ Korean learners. Start at kimchi-reader.app

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Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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