Ask GodGom
A multilingual travel guide chatbot. Ask in English, Español, Bahasa Indonesia, ภาษาไทย or 日本語 and GodGom answers in your language, in character.
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Korea travel buddy
Meet GodGom, your bear buddy in Korea.
A topknot-wearing Korean bear in a traditional gat (갓). He makes bite-sized stories about Korea and is learning to answer your travel questions — in your language.
Fun to listen to. Accurate on the facts.
GodGom says: Annyeong! 안녕!
Chapter 1 · Who
What's a GodGom?
One syllable with 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.
DAY 000 / 100
RESULT: still a bear. By choice. ✦
He kept his fur, put on his best hanbok and set off to show the world around Korea.
Tteokbokki 1, GodGom 0.
Character profile
- Name
- GodGom (갓곰)
- Class
- Travel buddy
- Species
- Asiatic black bear (반달가슴곰), honey-brown edition
- Outfit
- Hanbok vest, gat, sangtu topknot
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. This is ours.
Chapter 2 · What we build
Our quest log
One character, three ways to help you travel Korea.
Stories for every stop
Short-form videos and character stories for the places you'll visit: a quick laugh, a little history and one local tip you won't find in a brochure.
On YouTube @kgodgom.
Travel companion app
Survival cards for the moments you get stuck — T-money, subway transfers, convenience stores, pharmacies — plus the chatbot and stories, in one pocket-sized app.
MVP preview below.
Chapter 3 · Press start
Try the MVP
Ask GodGom is our first product: a pocket travel buddy that runs in your browser. No download, no sign-up. Play with the preview on this page.
- Ask in your languageType in any language in the live demo; the preview here knows a few sample questions.
- Survival cardsStep-by-step help plus a Korean phrase you can play out loud.
Place storiesA GodGom story and one local tip for each stop.- Safety firstEmergency numbers 112 (police) and 119 (fire and ambulance) are one tap away in the app, plus 1330, the tourist helpline for interpretation.
Preview · full demo coming soon
Ask GodGom
PREVIEW
Survival cards · tap to flip
Place stories
Preview with hand-picked answers. Open the live demo for the full app.
Chapter 4 · On YouTube
Watch GodGom on YouTube
K-GodGom Studio is our channel: a hanbok-wearing Korean bear who explains Korea and tests what the internet is talking about, in bite-sized shorts.
- 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.
- Trend testsGodGom tries the viral stuff so you don't have to.
Season 1 progress
3 / 20 shorts
- Open YouTube and search @kgodgom.
- Tap Subscribe, then the bell, to catch new shorts.
Now playing I Tried to Tip in Korea... They Chased Me to Give It Back
Chapter 5 · World map
Stage select
Where GodGom has been lately — in 2D, 3D, ink and folk-painting styles.
Chapter 6 · Continue?
Send GodGom a letter
Tourism boards, brands, licensing, press — or travelers with a question. Every letter gets read.
hello@kgodgom.com