The “Darakwon Korean Readers” series is comprised of books that recompose classic Korean literary works to match the reading levels of students from beginner to advanced levels (A1~C2) so students can easily increase their Korean reading comprehension skills in a fun way. The first literary work in this series, “The Story of the Rabbit,” adapts a classic Korean novel about a rabbit and a turtle who represent various social classes of the Joseon Dynasty. As students enjoy reading this story, they...
A great first intermediate level book
Yet another graded reader from the Darakwon series. The story is pretty nice, and different from anything I'd ever read before. I was excited to read further to know what would happen to 흥부 and 놀부.
Level wise, it's definitely a big jump from the previous A2 graded reader but still a lot easier than the next B2 one (춘향전). There is quite a lot of intermediate grammar, but as always some of it is explained in the form of little bubbles along the text. There's also some TOPIK II vocab, but little vocab notes at the bottom of the page help a lot, and generally those were words that I would have needed to look up anyways. In addition, you get some explanations for expressions.