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Kimchi Reader by Alaanor

Korean popup dictionary for YouTube, Netflix & any website. Vocabulary tracking, sentence mining, hanja breakdown. For 500+ word learners.

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About this extension
🎯 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:
🔎 350,000+ YouTube videos, Netflix shows, and books ranked by your vocabulary level
📚 EPUB reader with the same popup dictionary
🏆 Leaderboards, collections, 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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Required permissions:

  • Access your data for www.netflix.com
  • Access your data for www.youtube.com
  • Access your data for www.viki.com
  • Access your data for m.youtube.com
  • Access your data for kimchi-reader.app
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Version
0.20.0
Size
99.78 MB
Last updated
5 days ago (Mar 14, 2026)
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