# Pick Up Korean

> Pick Up Korean: learn Korean by talking on the phone with an AI partner who always picks up. For K-pop and K-drama fans, travelers and anyone who wants to actually speak. No app: a real phone call on the days you choose, patient with every retry, and it remembers you. A 10-minute trial call before you sign up, from $0.40 per 10 minutes.

- A Korean friend who always picks up.
- Phone: +1 (555) 555-0100
- Decide with a 10-minute trial call before you sign up. Sales tax may apply. Cancel any time.

## Why Pick Up Korean?

### Call any time, or let me call you

On the way to work, in the car, late at night. Whenever Korean crosses your mind, call and I pick up. Want a habit? Pick the days and a time, and on those days I call you first.

### I'm an AI. Try as many times as you like

You learn a language by speaking it. In front of people you hold back in case you get it wrong; with me there is no need. Get it wrong ten times and I correct it ten times, and ask the same thing again and I wait.

### I take you where you want to go

Talking to your favorite group's posts, following a drama without subtitles, ordering in Seoul, a Korean test. We start where you are and go one step at a time, and the more we talk, the better we know each other.

### Every call is analyzed and kept on the web

After each call, a detailed read on your level and corrections and a plan for next time go to the web. A text brings you the summary.

## Side by side

|  | Online tutors | Korean apps | Pick Up Korean |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Call first | At booked times only | No calls | Any time |
| Scheduled calls | Yes | None | Yes |
| Partner | A person | AI | AI |
| How often | 1 to 3 lessons a week | Daily | Daily, any time |
| Remembers you | Until the tutor changes | Varies by app | Yes |
| Careful corrections | Varies by tutor | Yes | Yes |
| Reports | Rarely | In the app | Web and text reports |
| Per 10 minutes | $3 to $7 | Flat monthly | From $0.41 |
| Per month | $60 to $160 (two 30-minute lessons a week) | $10 to $30 | From $24.99 (570 min) |

As of October 2026

## Pricing

Decide with a 10-minute trial call before you sign up. Sales tax may apply. Cancel any time.

### Lite (An easy start)

- $24.99/mo · Yearly $253.99/yr (15% off)
- From $0.50 per 10 minutes of calls
- Up to 9 hours of calls a month
- Scheduled calls up to 3 days a week
- 60 min weekly credit: Calls you place: 60 to 133 min a week, Scheduled calls only: 55 to 112 min a week
- If you miss a call, we call again and text you
- A report text after every call
- Keep talking by text

### Standard (Build the habit)

- $39.99/mo · Yearly $406.99/yr (15% off)
- From $0.40 per 10 minutes of calls
- Up to 16 hours of calls a month
- Scheduled calls up to 5 days a week
- 100 min weekly credit: Calls you place: 100 to 222 min a week, Scheduled calls only: 92 to 187 min a week
- If you miss a call, we call again and text you
- A report text after every call
- Keep talking by text

### Max (Talk every day)

- $54.99/mo · Yearly $559.99/yr (15% off)
- From $0.40 per 10 minutes of calls
- Up to 22 hours of calls a month
- Scheduled calls every day
- 140 min weekly credit: Calls you place: 140 to 311 min a week, Scheduled calls only: 129 to 262 min a week
- If you miss a call, we call again and text you
- A report text after every call
- Keep talking by text

### How the plans differ

|  | Lite | Standard | Max |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly price | $24.99 | $39.99 | $54.99 |
| Paid yearly (15% off) | $253.99 | $406.99 | $559.99 |
| Per 10 minutes of calls | From $0.50 | From $0.40 | From $0.40 |
| Scheduled calls | up to 3 days a week | up to 5 days a week | every day |
| Weekly credit | 60 min | 100 min | 140 min |
| Calls you place | 60 to 133 min a week | 100 to 222 min a week | 140 to 311 min a week |
| Scheduled calls only | 55 to 112 min a week | 92 to 187 min a week | 129 to 262 min a week |

Calls and text chats use your weekly credit: 27 seconds a minute with a regular partner and 60 seconds a minute with a premium partner. A scheduled call uses 5 more seconds a minute for the phone network. A premium partner sounds a little more natural on the phone.

### What every plan includes

On every plan, you can call the Pick Up Korean number whenever you like, with no limit on calls a day. On the days you schedule, your partner calls you at the time you set, and for each of those days you choose how long a call can run: 10, 20 or 30 minutes, or automatic. Text chat keeps the conversation going between calls: you and your partner text back and forth. If you miss a call, we call again, and if you still can't pick up, we leave a missed-call text.

After each call, we text you a report with the phrases you learned, and the transcript, the recording and the phrases build up in your call log on the web. You can change your partner's voice and speaking speed, the name your partner calls you, and your call schedule yourself, in Settings or during a call.

You can also ask your partner, during a call or by text, to change your schedule right away.

### Call time and credit

You pay by the month or the year, but your credit refills every Saturday at 12 AM. Credit you don't use doesn't carry over to the next week.

Each week's credit goes first to the days where you chose a call length, and what's left is shared evenly across the days set to automatic. If the days with a chosen length need more credit than there is, they share it equally.

When your credit runs out, your partner doesn't call you for the rest of that week and doesn't take calls you place either. We text you on the day it runs out. If it runs out in the middle of a call, we don't cut you off; the call wraps up. To talk more before your credit refills, you can buy extra credit.

When a call reaches its length, your partner doesn't hang up in the middle of a sentence. Your partner brings the conversation to a natural close, and going a little over is fine. The extra time costs nothing extra; your next call's share is that much shorter. But no call ever goes past 30 minutes.

Calls and text chats share the same credit. How much credit a minute of a call uses depends on the partner you choose and on who places the call. A premium partner sounds a little more natural on the phone, and a regular partner lets you talk longer on the same credit. You can choose your partner in Settings. A scheduled call uses 5 more seconds of credit a minute for the phone network.

| Credit per minute | Calls you place | Scheduled calls |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Regular partner | 27 sec | 32 sec |
| Premium partner | 60 sec | 65 sec |

A call where you actually talked that ends in under 30 sec counts as 30 sec. In text chat, each reply your partner sends uses 30 sec of credit.

### If you miss a call

Your partner calls at the time you set. At busy times the call can come a few minutes late. If you don't pick up, we try again every 10 minutes, up to 2 times. In Settings you can make the gap between tries as long as 60 minutes. If we still can't reach you, we send a missed-call text, and that day's call ends there.

A missed call uses no credit. On days set to automatic, your calls run longer on the credit left over. Calls you place use credit as usual.

### Reports and records

Before your first call, we text you the number we'll call from and when. On days you talk, we text you a report with the phrases you learned, and the transcript, the recording and the phrases build up in your call log on the web.

To protect your privacy, we delete transcripts and recordings automatically 30 days after the call. The phrases you learned, the day's summary and the report texts stay.

### When someone else is the learner

You can pay and have someone else take the calls, like a family member or an employee. The payer handles payment and the plan, and the learner can set the call schedule, the voice and the speaking speed too, or change them by saying so during a call.

The payer and the learner each decide whether to get the report text on days with a call and the missed-call text on days without. At first, both texts go to both of them. On the web, the payer can see when and how long the learner talked, and the reports. If the learner is an employee, the payer gets no reports, only when and how long they talked.

Only the learner can see the transcripts and recordings. What was said reaches the payer only as the phrases learned, in the reports.

### Trial call

Before you sign up, you can make a 10-minute trial call right now. You don't need an account or a card. After the call, a report with a read on your level and a suggested next step comes by text, and once you verify your phone number, you can look back at the conversation and the report on the web. 

### Changing or canceling your plan

You can cancel on the web at any time. You keep the time you already paid for after you cancel, and there's no cancellation fee. Moving to a different plan isn't open on Pick Up Korean subscriptions for now: to switch, cancel, and choose the new plan once the time you paid for ends.

### Payments and refunds

Payments go through Paddle, our reseller and the merchant of record, and the card you add is charged automatically on your payment date: every month on monthly billing, once a year on yearly billing. Within 14 days of a payment, you can ask for a refund. If you haven't used any credit since that payment, you get all of it back; if you have, you get it back minus what you used. Write to us at support@pickupkorean.com or ask Paddle at paddle.net. We reply within 3 business days, and the refund goes back to the way you paid (your bank may take a few more days to show it). The full rules are in the Refunds section of our Terms of Service.

[Pricing](https://pickupkorean.com/pricing)

## FAQ

### Using the service

**Do I need to install anything?**

No. Pick Up Korean calls you over the regular phone network, so any phone works and you answer like you always do. Before the first call we text you the number so you can save it.

**I am a total beginner. Is that okay?**

Yes. You can mix in English whenever you need to. Ask in English and your partner understands, then carries on in Korean. Ask them to slow down and they slow down; ask for a moment to think and they wait. Over the calls they learn where you are and what you want, and adjust.

**Can I call first?**

Yes. Whenever you feel like talking, call the Pick Up Korean number and your partner picks up. There is no daily limit on calls you place, and they use the same weekly credit as scheduled calls. All three plans include it. On a desktop you can also call right from the browser.

**When do the calls come?**

On the days and at the time you choose, always from the same number. You can change the schedule on the website, during a call, or by texting your partner. When calls bunch up it may ring a few minutes late.

**How long is a call?**

For each scheduled day you can choose up to 10, 20 or 30 minutes, or leave it automatic. A call never runs past what you chose, and runs shorter if the week's credit is low. Calls you place work the same way. No call ever runs past 30 minutes.

**Is my partner an AI?**

Yes. That is why they remember every call and never mind you asking the same thing again. If you are busy, do not answer; they call once more ten minutes later.

**What if I miss a call?**

They call again ten minutes later. You can stretch that gap to an hour in the settings. If the call never connects, you get a missed-call text. A call that did not happen uses no credit, though a call you place does.

**What can I do on the website?**

Read every conversation as text and listen to the recording. Each call leaves a list of what you learned, and your partner picks what to practice next time. As calls add up you can see how your Korean is growing. In the settings you choose your partner's voice and pace, what you call each other, and your call schedule.

**What is texting?**

Between calls you can keep the conversation going by text with your partner. All three plans include it. Each reply your partner sends uses 30 seconds of credit; your own texts use none.

### Privacy

**Where do my conversations go?**

Each call is kept as text and as a recording in your call log, which only you can see on the website. Transcripts and recordings are deleted within 30 days of the call; what you learned, the summaries and the reports stay. Transcripts are never used to train AI or sold.

**Can I delete a transcript?**

Yes. In the call log you can erase a transcript yourself, and the recording goes with it. Even if you do nothing, it is deleted within 30 days.

**What happens to my records if I cancel?**

Calls continue until the period you paid for ends, then stop. Transcripts and recordings are deleted within 30 days as usual. What you learned stays until three months pass without a call, and you can delete it any time. Ask us to delete your account and every record goes.

### Pricing

**What does it cost?**

Lite is $24.99 a month for 60 minutes of weekly credit with calls scheduled on up to 3 days, Standard is $39.99 for 100 minutes on up to 5 days, and Max is $54.99 for 140 minutes on any day. All three include calling first and texting. Pay for a year at once and save 15%.

**How is credit used?**

Credit covers calls and texting alike. A standard partner uses 27 seconds of credit per minute of a call you place and 32 seconds per minute of a scheduled call; a premium partner uses 60 and 65 seconds. A call where words were spoken counts as at least 30 seconds. Each text reply uses 30 seconds.

**Can I try it before signing up?**

Yes. The 10-minute trial call needs no account and no card. When it ends we text you a short report on today's call.

**What happens when the credit runs out?**

For the rest of that week your partner does not call and does not pick up, and you get a text the day it runs out. A call in progress is finished, not cut. Credit refills every Saturday at midnight. If you want more before then, you can buy extra credit; otherwise there is never an extra charge.

**What is extra credit?**

Credit you buy when the week's is gone and you want to keep talking. It costs $0.15 a minute, from 60 to 240 minutes at a time, and lasts 30 days from the purchase. The week's credit is used first.

**How do I cancel?**

On the website, any time. What you have already paid for stays yours until the period ends, and there is no penalty.

**What is the refund policy?**

Within 7 days of a payment you can withdraw: a full refund if no credit was used, otherwise the unused part. A yearly payment can be refunded later too, less the months used or the credit used, whichever is larger. There is no penalty.

[FAQ](https://pickupkorean.com/faq)

## Korean, the fun way

What we learn about Korean, and about building Pick Up Korean, written down.


[Korean, the fun way](https://pickupkorean.com/blog)

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