A metaverse education platform
where the world learns Korea
Meta Edu Korea delivers Korea's knowledge and experience to the world and lays the groundwork for developing countries to leap forward — the world's first Korean-education metaverse that fuses XR and AI.
Korean learning stuck in 2D —
now turned into experience
Beyond K-pop and K-drama to K-semiconductors and K-defense, the world sees Korea as a global leader and wants to learn about it. But Korean learning material is limited to text, photos and video, which caps the learning effect.
Limits of conventional education
Lessons built on textbooks, photos and video deliver 2D information one-way, lacking immersion and interaction.
Korea's global standing and demand
Demand to learn Korean language, culture, industry and technology is surging worldwide.
The Meta Edu Korea answer
Immersive learning with implemented Korean spaces, live lessons by professional instructors and a Korean-specialized AI chatbot.
One platform for
every side of Korea
Open online schools and academies, run virtual exhibitions and galleries, use meta offices and meeting rooms, a meta chapel, concert halls and rehearsal rooms, a Korean convenience store and subway — plus a personal space you enter after login.
- PC, smartphone, VR HMD and smart glasses at once
- Live Korean lessons by professional instructors + self-study with a Korean AI chatbot
- A 24/7/365 education model fitting regional and national needs
- Focus on North America and Europe: US, UK, France, Canada
Walk, touch and learn in a Korea
that has actually been built
Everything below is a screen from platforms we actually built and operate — not concept art. Click an image to enlarge.
Korean city tour ① Wolmido
Take your own sentimental trip at Wolmido, a signature tourist spot of Incheon. Ride the Wolmi Sea Train and visit every corner of the island.
- A 6.1 km Wolmi Sea Train ride across sea and land
- Wolmi Culture Street full of food and sights; Wolmi Cultural Center for Korean tradition
- Korean Immigration Museum, Wolmi Theme Park, national marine park, lighthouse and observatory
- Korean subway experience — Incheon Airport T1/T2, Bupyeong, Gyeyang and Incheon City Hall stations
History Zone — Korean heritage sites
Gyeongbokgung, Hwaseong Haenggung, King Sejong's tomb, Donam Seowon, Naganeupseong, Dokdo and Jeju — history you walk into rather than read about.
- Gyeongbokgung — Joseon's largest palace (1395), Geunjeongjeon and Gyeonghoeru
- Naganeupseong Folk Village — a walled Joseon town with thatched houses
- Yeongneung — tomb of King Sejong, creator of Hangul
- Nonsan Donam Seowon — UNESCO World Heritage seowon as a digital twin
- Suwon Hwaseong and Haenggung — King Jeongjo's fortress
Daily-life Zone — Koreans' everyday spaces
Convenience-store culture is something every Korean enjoys. To truly know today's Koreans and understand the culture, nothing beats the convenience-store experience — it holds all of everyday life.
- Browse shelves, read product labels, pay and order — practical Korean from signs and packaging
- Order at a café, make plans, order at a Korean restaurant
- 'Fog text' blurs letters you have not learned yet to build reading skill
Education Zone — lecture rooms and campus
Having your own classroom and sharing your knowledge with many people is a gift. Open an online school or academy and join lessons.
- Classrooms, conferences (up to 100) and avatar-based meeting rooms
- Teacher mode — class management, group moves, live monitoring
- Real-time lecture tools proven at Kyung Hee METAKHU (PDF slides, whiteboard, seating)
Exhibition, company & industry experience
Learn business Korean by experiencing Korean exhibitions and companies — observe leading IT, beauty, manufacturing, healthcare and startup firms and practice product explanations and consultations.
- Goals: exhibition vocabulary, formal business Korean, gathering and comparing information, Korean business etiquette
- 162 company booths based on the Korea Industry Fair digital-twin expo
- Solar power plant experience — energy conversion and renewable energy management (technical training)
- Korean farming experience — newly developed (service planned Aug 2027)
Culture, arts, performance & mental care
Exhibitions, performances, galleries, museums — and a space to care for the mind. See, hear and create Korean culture and art.
- Metaverse exhibitions — build your own expo or gallery and share it with the world
- Metaverse performance — build a venue and stage and invite family and friends
- AI mental care — welcome center, peace, healing and care zones
- Hope City — SBS, Community Chest, World Vision and Greenpeace
Core features of
Meta Edu Korea
Realistic experience spaces
From Gyeongbokgung to convenience stores, digital-twin spaces become places to live rather than to study.
Professional Korean instruction
Live lessons by professional instructors in virtual classrooms with real-time collaboration tools.
AI chatbot self-study
Talk anytime with a Korean-specialized AI chatbot while progress is tracked and fed back in real time.
Multi-device, cross-platform
A single Unity codebase supports PC, mobile, VR HMD and smart glasses.
From 'Hello' to 'a person who bridges Korea' —
five courses, one story
A learner who could not read a single Hangul letter at Incheon Airport lives in a boarding house (beginner), works (elementary), leads a community (intermediate), bridges Korea with the world as a professional (advanced), teaches the next learner (expert) — and three years later greets a new learner at the same airport.
Beginner
Pre-A1 → A1 · TOPIK I 1Learner role The newcomer
- Stage & chapters
- Arrive at Incheon Airport → settle in a boarding house → convenience store, café, market → subway, university, Wolmido → Gyeongbokgung and Hangul Day festival
- Goals
- Read and write Hangul, and handle greetings, ordering, directions and self-introduction
- Graduation scene
- Hangul Day festival
Elementary
A1 → A2 · TOPIK I 2Learner role Neighbor & part-timer
- Stage & chapters
- Convenience-store job → hospital, bank, moving → club and feelings → Suwon/Jeju trip talk → volunteering, kimchi-making, internship, year-end party
- Goals
- Serve customers, phone calls, hospital visits, trip talks; switch between casual, polite and formal speech
- Graduation scene
- Hanbit Alley year-end party
Intermediate
A2 → B1 · TOPIK II 3~4Learner role Leader, intern, citizen reporter
- Stage & chapters
- Club president → Meta Office intern → alley spring festival → citizen reporter → career choice and anniversary
- Goals
- Mediate meetings, give reports, interview; write reports, articles and applications (500–600 characters)
- Graduation scene
- Alley first anniversary
Advanced
B2 → C1 · TOPIK II 5Learner role Expert & mediator
- Stage & chapters
- Project launch → academia → broadcast reporter → museum special-exhibition guide → international conference
- Goals
- Negotiation, academic talks, broadcasting, speeches, interpreter-style summaries; contracts, abstracts, essays (700 characters)
- Graduation scene
- International conference
Expert
C1 → C2 · TOPIK II 6Learner role Practitioner & mentor
- Stage & chapters
- Core 1–8 → Tracks A and B (two of business negotiation, translation, Korean studies, cultural content, technical work) → capstone
- Goals
- Impromptu speech, pitching, interpreting, keynotes and panels; long-form prose (3,000 characters), review responses
- Graduation scene
- Incheon Airport arrivals hall — greeting the next learner
A story that comes full circle
The Incheon Airport arrivals hall of lesson 1 returns in the final lesson, showing three years of growth.
Branches from learner choices
Dropping formal speech, club-budget agreement, career choice, negotiation limits — choices carry into later lessons and courses.
Different pace, same world
Placement tests let learners enter midway, and returning home does not break the story — remote participation continues it.
Language ladder by course
Grammar and assessment are designed to CEFR and TOPIK levels. (TOPIK format is a reference only; items are original.)
| Course | CEFR / TOPIK | Core grammar & discourse | Final assessment (3 gates) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Pre-A1→A1 / TOPIK I 1 | Hangul and batchim, copula, basic particles, -ayo, numbers, past tense, honorific -(eu)seyo | Hangul & listening → life role-play → festival self-intro |
| Elementary | A1→A2 / TOPIK I 2 | -seumnida, permission, reasons, intention, experience, purpose, honorific expansion | TOPIK I-style + phone & interview + letter & toast |
| Intermediate | A2→B1 / TOPIK II 3~4 | conditionals, reported speech, trade-offs, passive and causative, retrospective, 'the more…' | TOPIK II-style + meeting mediation & interview + essay & anniversary talk |
| Advanced | B2→C1 / TOPIK II 5 | worth-doing, let alone, academic citation, apology and indirect speech, proverbs and classical poetry | TOPIK II (level 5)-style + panel hosting & interpreter-style summary + essay & speech |
| Expert | C1→C2 / TOPIK II 6 | tone spectrum, indirect speech acts, classical grammar, humor and satire, inclusive language, field-specific styles | TOPIK II level 6-style + track simulations + impromptu debate + 1,000-character essay + portfolio defense |
Nuri helps less as
the learner grows
From a helper AI to a thinking colleague and finally a friend who says goodbye — learner independence is shown through the story.
| Course | Nuri (AI buddy) role | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Guide & interpreter friend | Native-language explanation + key Korean |
| Elementary | Life coach | 95% Korean |
| Intermediate | Colleague & adviser | 95–100% Korean |
| Advanced | On-call colleague | 100% Korean |
| Expert | Adviser → farewell | Questions instead of answers; farewell in lesson 19 |
How a lesson works
Each course is 5 chapters × 4 lessons; the last lesson of a chapter is a boss, and lesson 20 is the final assessment (3 gates). Every lesson follows a 7-step quest loop.
Review the last lesson, check diary feedback
Introduce today's situation and goal as a story
Listen to real native speech
Discover the rules of letters and patterns
Practice through mini-games
Complete a task by talking with NPCs
Report, stars and planting in the memory garden
Beginner course: 20-lesson curriculum
Hangul and pronunciation (1–8) → basic patterns and vocabulary (9–14) → survival conversation (15–20). About 15–20 hours in total.
| # | Lesson | Quest / experience mission |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Hangul's origin and jamo system | Find jamo in the Hangul Museum world |
| 02 | 10 basic vowels | Hangul Day experience mission |
| 03 | Basic consonants | Calligraphy mission |
| 04 | Tense consonants | Pronunciation-distinction game |
| 05 | Aspirated consonants & syllables | Hangul assembly puzzle |
| 06 | Final consonants (batchim) | Reading street signs |
| 07 | Compound batchim & liaison | Reading along song lyrics |
| 08 | Diphthongs | Guess traditional game names |
| 09 | Numbers, dates & days | Calendar: find anniversaries |
| 10 | Greetings & self-introduction | First-meeting NPC dialogue |
| 11 | Objects & demonstratives | Store-shelf tour |
| 12 | Expressing existence | House-layout tour |
| 13 | Places & particles | Sightseeing trip |
| 14 | Basic verb & adjective forms | Action imitation game |
| 15 | Asking and telling time | Train timetable |
| 16 | Family & basic honorifics | Family introduction talk |
| 17 | Colors & shapes | Art-museum coloring |
| 18 | Ordering food | Korean restaurant order |
| 19 | Asking directions | Seoul map tour |
| 20 | Beginner course review | First-settlement mission: self-intro video |
Final assessment: Hangul dictation 40%, self-introduction and survival conversation 40%, quest record 20%. Passing requires 90%+ accuracy on basic consonants and vowels and about 10 survival patterns.
The AI learning engine
that builds real skill
ASR, pronunciation scoring, LLM NPCs, TTS and safety classifiers are linked into one learning engine for level-fitted conversation, precise correction and safe learning.
AI conversation NPCs
NPCs build 95%+ of their speech from vocabulary and patterns the learner already knows. Success is judged by whether the communicative function (greeting, request, confirmation) was achieved, errors are corrected naturally by recasting, and NPCs remember the learner's name and events.
Phoneme-level pronunciation
Phoneme scores shown in three colors with coaching matched to the learner's native-language interference. A 'sound mirror' with native mouth and tongue animations, a 'candle experiment' that visualizes plain, aspirated and tense sounds, and a whisper mode for school PC rooms.
Hangul decoding
'Fog text' blurs signs and nameplates containing letters not yet learned; jamo block assembly, stroke-order writing (80%+ trace match) and a sign collection book build real reading ability.
AI writing feedback
Error marks with a one-line reason in the learner's language, meaning-preserving suggestions and original text kept. A no-ghostwriting mode, genre workbench for speeches, minutes, reports and applications, and a writing portfolio.
Register & relationship
Classifies formal, polite and casual speech and judges honorific errors. Meeting the same characters over three years — including a 'shall we speak casually?' moment — teaches how Korean changes with relationship.
Memory garden (SRS)
Learned words and patterns become seeds that grow from sprout to flower (long-term memory). SM-2-style spaced repetition builds daily review quests and automatically plants weak points.
Metaphone
An in-game smartphone with a vocabulary notebook, camera-translation 'lens' (limited use), messenger, map, calendar and wallet; it evolves into email, work messenger and official documents as courses advance.
Multiplayer learning
Houses (up to 4), clubs (4–6), quiz shows and conferences (up to 100). Cooperative information-gap tasks with different screens per role, contribution tracking, an AI partner when no pair is available and a sticker-only safe community.
MEK score & certification
'Your MEK activity alone makes you a Korea expert!' — Korean ability and understanding of Korea are scored quantitatively and graded into ranks.
How points are earned
- A typical Korean graduate's Korean, geography and history knowledge is set as the 3,000-point reference
- Start with 10 points; 1,000 points earns 'Novice', rising through 2,000 (Intermediate) up to 7,000 (Transcendent)
- 3 points per hour of live Korean lessons
- Instructor mission rating (1/2/3 points) and zone quizzes and missions (1–2 points, −1 on failure)
- Weekly contests 20–30 points, monthly final 50, annual final 100; Korean geography levels (10 points each, up to 100)
- Planned: technical and job-skill certification and visa-points recognition for work and study
Maximum points by area (total 10,000)
Classroom tools for
teachers and institutions
A single web tool covers class management, grading adjustment and learning analytics so schools and institutions can teach right away, with bulk accounts (CSV, invite codes) and SSO.
- Bulk class and student registration, progress and completion
- Live monitoring of each student's location and scene
- Group moves and sync — summon the whole class to a zone, synced cutscenes
- Analytics dashboard — pronunciation heat map, error-type alerts, star distribution
- Assign supplementary quests and writing tasks with deadlines
- Teacher live-lesson link — 3 MEK points per attended hour
- Review and adjust auto-grading; auto-vs-teacher agreement
- Crisis alerts (only if the institution configured consent)
A learning environment
you can trust
Safety and privacy requirements were designed in from the start for minors and international users.
Harmful-language filter
Multilingual detection, polite NPC redirection, masking and reporting
Crisis detection
Always-on detection; pauses the game and points to real local help in the learner's language
Personal & financial data blocking
Rejects real names, addresses, cards and accounts; in-game finance is virtual only
Minor protection
Guardian consent, automatic replacement of adult scenes, voice limited to class/house
Learning integrity
Locked assessment mode, no ghostwriting, item-exposure limits, no fabricated experiences
Data rights
Consent-based voice storage, retention settings, deletion requests, camera video processed on-device
Anywhere, on any device
A single Unity 6 LTS codebase, OpenXR-based XR, real-time multiplayer (Photon Fusion 2), cloud servers with a CDN and Addressables delivery that swaps content without app updates.
Supported native languages: English · Spanish · Portuguese · Malay/Indonesian · Japanese · Chinese (native-language explanations, subtitles and pronunciation coaching)
From Korean language to technical training,
expanding step by step
Korean-learning service
- Official service of beginner-to-expert Korean courses
- MEK scoring and certification
- North America and Europe first
Primary-school content
- History experiences such as Joseon pottery and the building of Hwaseong
- Science content such as relativity pitched at children's level
- Rolled out in sequence
Technical & job training
- Technical education service and XR content (2027~)
- New Korean farming experience (service planned Aug 2027)
- Job and industry experience such as a solar power plant
Malaysia supply MOU
In December 2025 we signed an MOU with Roboshop Technology to supply Meta Edu Korea.
Ghana primary-education VR
Shares its technology base with the national project that puts science, English and math textbooks into VR.
Kyung Hee METAKHU experience
Reuses the virtual-lecture features proven in real university classes since 2022.
Join Meta Edu Korea
We welcome adoption and local-supply partnership inquiries from schools, governments and companies. Live demos available.