Arrivals / 입국심사
Under reviewSpeak Korean when someone is waiting for an answer.
A textbook lets you finish the sentence. A landlord does not. Seoulvivor puts you in 126 spoken scenarios where a Korean character talks back, presses you, and decides whether you handled it. New scenarios land every month, over the air.
One minute of it
An immigration officer at Incheon wants to know why you are here. You have to say it out loud.
Afterwards it shows you the line you should have used. For the answer above: 서울로 갑니다. 서울에서 2주 동안 머무를 예정입니다.
Graded on three things
Listening
Did you understand?
Whether you answered the question that was actually asked, at the speed it was asked.
Speaking
Did it come out right?
Grammar, word choice, and whether the sentence would pass without a second look.
Nunchi / 눈치
Did you read the room?
Formality, timing, and knowing when not to argue. The part a textbook leaves out.
The three combine into one grade, S down to F. The same sentence does not score the same in front of a friend and in front of an official.
Who you have to deal with
Transactions
Ordering, paying, returning, refusing. A vendor leaves a toothbrush on your lap and comes back for the money.
Official procedure
Immigration, the ward office, the bank. People who need a specific answer in a specific order.
Conflict
A neighbour about the noise. A landlord about the deposit. Someone who is already annoyed.
Requests
Asking a favour of someone who has no particular reason to say yes.
Comprehension
An announcement, a fast explanation, directions you only get to hear once.
Social
The small talk that decides whether you get treated as a local or a tourist.
Clearing scenarios stamps your passport and moves you up the visa tiers — C-3, D-2, E-7, F-4 — and your weekly nunchi score is ranked against everyone else's.
Permits
Short-stay
Free
- 3 scenarios a day
- Full grading and the corrected line
- Passport, stamps and the weekly league
Resident
$19.99 / month
$119.99 / year — half price
- 7-day free trial on either plan
- 10 scenarios a day
- Every scenario unlocked
- Advanced tiers: D-2, E-7, F-4
A single locked scenario can also be opened on its own with an entry key. Both plans start with a 7-day free trial: nothing is charged until the trial ends, Apple reminds you before it does, and cancelling during the trial costs nothing. Everything is billed through the App Store and a subscription can be cancelled there at any time. Prices shown in USD; your local price is set by the App Store.
Before you ask
- Do I have to speak out loud?
- Yes. The whole thing runs on your voice — there is no typing your way past it. The microphone is live only while you are answering a turn.
- Is the grade an official Korean test result?
- No. It is an estimate produced by an AI and shown as a game score card. It has no connection to TOPIK or to any government body.
- What happens to my recordings?
- They are sent for transcription and grading, then deleted once processed. Nothing is kept to train a model. The privacy policy sets out the whole pipeline, including what happens when a request fails.
- Is the catalogue finished?
- No. New scenarios are written and shipped every month, and they arrive over the air — the app picks them up on its own, without waiting for an App Store update.
- Will this work if I am a complete beginner?
- You need to read Hangul and know a few set phrases. Every scenario shows you two lines you can say before it starts, and hands you the better version afterwards.
- Does it work without an account?
- You can start straight away without signing in. An account is needed before any purchase, so that what you paid for stays attached to you.