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English travel helper for Korea.

Ask GodGom answers your Korea travel questions in your language and is powered by Claude. Add 12 survival cards for the moments you get stuck (T-money, subway, pharmacy, emergencies) and YouTube Shorts that explain life in Korea. Fronted by GodGom (갓곰), a bear in a traditional gat.

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GodGom says: Annyeong! 안녕!

What we build

Three parts, one travel helper

Ask GodGom, survival cards and YouTube Shorts. The chatbot, the cards and three Claude tools (menu/sign photo translator, medicine label reader, phrase cards) are live today at kgodgom.com/app.

GodGom holding a strap on a Seoul subway train at night

01Live

Ask GodGom

A travel chatbot with no sign-up. Ask in English, Español, Bahasa Indonesia, ภาษาไทย or 日本語 and GodGom answers in the language you write in. Emergency numbers 112, 119 and 1330 are always on screen.

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3D GodGom standing in a Korean palace courtyard

02On YouTube

YouTube Shorts

Short videos about everyday life and travel in Korea, from tipping to the subway. The channel has 30+ public videos (as of 2026-10-11).

On YouTube @kgodgom.

GodGom with a suitcase in the arrivals hall of Incheon Airport

03Live in the app

Survival cards and place stories

12 step-by-step cards for the moments you get stuck (T-money, subway transfers, convenience stores, pharmacies, emergencies), each with a Korean phrase you can play aloud, plus 5 place stories. Cards and places also work offline once loaded.

Open Cards and Places in the app.

Live product

Try Ask GodGom

Ask GodGom runs in your browser. No download, no sign-up. Type a question in your own language below, or open it full screen. Answers are generated by Claude and can be wrong, so check important details with official sources.

  • Ask in your languageType in any language. Claude answers in yours.
  • Survival cardsStep-by-step help plus a Korean phrase you can play out loud.
  • Place storiesFive short stories, each with one local tip.
  • Safety firstEmergency numbers 112 (police) and 119 (fire and ambulance) are one tap away in the app, plus 1330, the tourist helpline for interpretation.
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Ask GodGom LIVE

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Under the hood

How Ask GodGom uses Claude

What the app actually does, nothing more.

Claude API through a Worker

Your question goes to a small Cloudflare Worker on kgodgom.com, which calls the Claude API (Anthropic's official SDK, model Claude Opus 5.5). The API key lives only as a server secret and is never sent to your browser.

Streaming answers

Answers are streamed, so text appears as Claude writes it. If you close the page, generation is cancelled.

Prompt caching

Each request carries the same fixed instructions: GodGom's persona plus a knowledge pack drawn from official Korean sources, each section with an "as of" date. That block is marked for prompt caching, so repeated requests read it from cache.

Five languages

Suggested questions come in English, Spanish, Indonesian, Thai and Japanese. GodGom replies in the language you write in, with a short Korean phrase when it helps.

Emergency information

If you mention danger, injury or an emergency, the instructions tell Claude to start with 112 (police), 119 (fire and ambulance) and 1330 (Korea Travel Hotline, interpretation). The app also shows these numbers permanently.

No sign-up, rate limits

No account is needed. To prevent abuse, each visitor is limited to 5 chat requests per 60 seconds (per Cloudflare location) plus a best-effort 20 per 10 minutes. A request holds at most 12 messages of 1,000 characters.

No chat storage

We do not store conversations. Server logs keep only token counts, status codes and request IDs. Your messages are processed by Anthropic to produce the answer. See Privacy.

Limits of the tool

No web browsing, no tools, no bookings and no live data. If it is unsure it says so and points to an official source. Answers can still be wrong.

You can check that the live Claude connection is configured at /api/health. Built by the founder with Claude Code. More on the About page.

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On YouTube

YouTube Shorts about Korea

Our channel @kgodgom explains everyday Korea in short videos, with GodGom the bear as host.

K-GodGom

@kgodgom · 30+ public videos (as of 2026-10-11)

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  • Korea, explainedWhy Korea works the way it does, from Korean age to tipping.
  • Travel survival tipsSubways, T-money, convenience stores and other first-day puzzles.
  • Quizzes and mythsShort quizzes on Korean daily life and the founding myth of the bear.

Follow the channel

  1. Open YouTube and search @kgodgom.
  2. Tap Subscribe, then the bell, to catch new shorts.

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    Company

    Who is behind K-GodGom

    Sangtuteun Gom (상투튼곰), trading as K-GodGom. Sole proprietorship, business registration no. 827-94-01927. Established 2025-11-28 in Ulsan, South Korea. Founder and representative: Seungil Baek (백승일). Self-funded.

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    The mascot

    What's a GodGom?

    The name has two meanings, plus one bear. Tap the cards.

    곰 gom Bear. An Asiatic black bear (반달가슴곰), to be precise. Ours just came in honey.
    갓곰 GodGom A god-tier bear in a gat. Hi.

    The 100-day challenge

    In Korea's founding myth, a bear is told to eat only mugwort and garlic and stay out of the sun for 100 days to become human. (In the oldest telling, she made it in just 21.) GodGom is going the full 100. Help him finish it.

    GodGom laughing, still a bear

    DAY 000 / 100

    Character profile

    Name
    GodGom (갓곰)
    Role
    Host of the travel helper
    Species
    Asiatic black bear (반달가슴곰), honey-brown edition
    Outfit
    Hanbok vest, gat, sangtu topknot
    • Charm10
    • Fact-checking10
    • Patience9
    • 3

    Our company is named after him: Sangtuteun Gom (상투튼곰), “the bear who tied his topknot.” In Joseon Korea, tying the sangtu marked coming of age. About the company.

    Illustrations

    Where GodGom has been

    Scenes from the videos and the app, in 2D, 3D, ink and folk-painting styles.

      Contact

      Write to us

      Questions, corrections, press, partnerships, or feedback on Ask GodGom. We read every email.

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