Mission
Help Korean tutors run their own teaching business, and help their students keep practicing between lessons.
For Korean tutors and their students
Tools for teaching and learning Korean.
A website builder for Korean tutors who want to sell lessons under their own name, and an iOS app for practicing Korean out loud.
2products in development
3+years Nora has taught Korean online
5,400+hours of tutoring
What we build
A site builder for tutors, and an app for their students.
In development
AI website builder for Korean tutors
Rely less on tutoring marketplaces. Run your own site under your own name, pay less in fees on the students you bring in, and grow your teaching business beyond 1:1 lessons.
- 1:1 lessons, group classes and recorded courses, all sold from one site
- Booking, payments and student records in one place
- Build the site by describing what you want, in plain words
- On your own domain, or a lushkorean.com address
In development · iOS
Korean learning app
Daily Korean practice for beginners, built on a real teacher's curriculum. Each day has a short grammar lesson, then sentence building, vocabulary and speaking.
- Learn word order and particles by building sentences yourself
- Listen to each sentence and say it out loud
- Practice from each student's own lessons, in their teacher's voice, starting February 2027
Our first customer
Korean with Nora
Nora has taught Korean online for more than three years, mostly to beginner and intermediate adults who want to speak with more confidence. She is our business partner and the first tutor on Lush Korean.
- 5,400+ tutoring hours
- Certified Korean language teacher
About
Our approach.
How we help
- Earn more without more hoursSell 1:1 lessons, group classes and recorded courses from one site under your own name.
- Keep more of each salePay less in platform fees on the students you bring in.
- Practice between lessonsStudents practice every day in our app, between lessons.
How we grow
- Tutor sitesKorean tutors run their sites on Lush Korean for a service fee or a commission on each sale.
- Learners on the appThe app reaches independent learners worldwide, then the students of every tutor on Lush Korean.
- Schools and academiesSchools and academies connect their classes to the app for personalized practice.
Vision
A platform built only for Korean education, used by independent tutors and by schools.
Values
We measure our work by how much learners and tutors improve.
We try new ways of teaching and new technology, and learn from what fails.
Tutors own their lessons and content, and we keep our promises to their students.
Built in-house
Our Mac apps.
Tokki is free to download. Narration Studio and Workbench are in internal use.
Tokki
v0.0.8 · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon
Live captions and translation for anything your Mac plays or hears.
- Live captions for system audio or the microphone
- Line-by-line translation as people speak
- Saved sessions you can search and export
- Interface in English or Korean
Narration Studio
Internal tool · v0.5.0
Lesson videos narrated in the tutor's own voice.
- Turns lesson PDFs into narrated videos for students, in the tutor's cloned voice
- Generates any sentence in the tutor's voice, in Korean and other languages, to test and reuse
Workbench
Internal tool · v0.9.1
Our dashboard for running software projects with AI coding agents.
- One queue of work across all our projects
- Hands tasks to coding agents and tracks their reviews
Roadmap
What's next.
Our plan through 2027.
Nora's site opens for lesson booking and payment, and the learning app launches on the App Store.
The first recorded course goes on sale, and group classes run once or twice a month.
Teachers share lesson materials and assign homework to each student in the app.
Booking, payment and course sales become reusable modules, and work on the AI website builder begins.
The AI website builder launches. Korean tutors build their own sites in plain language and add the modules they need.
History
How we got here.
Nora starts teaching Korean online on the side. Three years later it is her full-time job.
We set out to build Nora her own teaching site and name the project Lush Korean.
Bart starts building the iOS app on Nora's curriculum.
We join Seneca HELIX's EWIL program in Toronto, Canada, to turn the project into a business.
lushkorean.com goes live as the company site, and Nora's site moves to nora.lushkorean.com.
Team
Who we are.
Bart
Founder, product and engineering
Builds the site builder, the app and our Mac tools, and runs everything technical.
Nora
Business partner, Korean teacher and first customer
Teaches, writes the curriculum and lesson materials, and decides what good teaching looks like in our products.
Joe
AI Engineer
Marie
Product Designer
Get in touch
Say hello.
Interested in the site builder for your own tutoring, or in the app? Write to us.