Those are the ones! 
Awesome to hear!
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Why am I here? I shouldn’t be here. But I’m here I guess.
I definitely will want to check out 本気で学ぶ韓国語 (and it sounds like honto.jp is the way to go, thanks @omk3!).
Over time I’ve found that my best bet for learning is a CI approach, and/or reading along to audio. Does anyone know of any beginner video lessons taught in (or mainly in) Korean?
I’m not a huge fan of flashcards, but I do make an exception for writing systems… although I’ve heard Korean is super logical and easy to learn… should I trust that and just go with the flow, or does someone have a good Hangul learning resource?
I still really shouldn’t be here 
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For lessons in Korean, I believe you can search 세종학당 초급 on Youtube. I also remember taking a course through KMOOC and it was in Korean with Korean subtitles, but I don’t remember which one exactly it was…
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Check out 태웅쌤 if you like CI! you’ll find a few other channels searching comprehensible input or tprs Korean on YouTube as well. Besides classic CI, there’s also a lot of super simple podcasts all in kr for learners with subs on there too.
Hangul easy just use literally any resource to memorise it doesn’t matter. (we’re blessed that way)
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Comprehensible input is a nice concept and it looks like it works, but I’m bored to death watching a guy slowly play various games 
Watching one hour of sudoku?! How?
I fluctuate between studying hard for several hours in a row and doing nothing at all for weeks, then I wonder if I should revise or just continue when I’m in the mood to study again, and more often than not do none of the two out of indecision 
. It increasingly looks like Korean will go the way of Japanese, where I kept (re)learning the basics for almost two decades (on and off, mostly off, but never quite letting go), until I was suddenly somehow at a level where I could push myself to speed up and start devouring native content. I was hoping I’d be more efficient with Korean, but doesn’t seem like it so far. I hope to prove me wrong.
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I haven’t been following along your studies, but perhaps stacking Japanese & Korean may make it more fun? Like a japanese textbook for Korean, or a Korean YouTube channel for Japanese learners 
I must admit, i’ve never been terribly good with the comprehensible input at super low levels… I always end up preferring doing grammar & vocab. 
Edit: FWIW when I get good enough at Korean, this is my dream for relearning Japanese 
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Yes I do have 本気で学ぶ韓国語シリーズ which is a Japanese textbook for Korean, and I quite like it. But sometimes I find it taxing doing a textbook on my own, especially when I have lots of other things going on, so I’m looking to diversify. I’ve tried Anki, videos, Korean Grammar in Use, random apps. They all feel nice and fresh for a while, but I somehow don’t stick with any of them. I’m sure it’s a me problem. I think my brain is asking for more time to process stuff. Or possibly to just give it a rest with all these languages for a while. I’m stubborn though! 
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If you like consuming content as a way of learning you might like checking out Refold. They have a learning roadmap and a YouTube channel about learning via input. The discord community is really active and helpful and have a lot of resource recs and tips.
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태웅쌤 has a lot more than that, if you’re interested in checking his channel out. He plays anything from puzzle games to horror games, through Stardew valley. I usually watch them with other people though, while we throw gif after gif, so that makes it more fun.
There are a lot of other channels with CI for learners, such as 몰입한국어, storytime in Korean, Koreansunflower, Didi의 한국문화 Podcast and 최수수 Choisusu. The level of complexity will vary, as well as how interesting it is, but even with beginner ressources you can find interesting stuff.
For grammar lessons in Korean, I like 꼬미스쿨 and 한국어 배우기. I find 한국어 배우기’s speaking speed too slow now, but it should suit a beginner more. Both of these channels have English and Korean subs available, if you need them.
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Brandon hit it on the head; absolute beginner CI is pretty boring, although I did watch the hour of sudoku last night and thought it was one of the better deliveries of absolute beginner’s CI that I’ve seen. Especially since a lot of European languages tend to depend on English cognates to boost beginner content and you can’t do that with Korean. I also found a beginner playlist of his which was a lot more engaging, even for a complete beginner.
In the past I usually started with word flashcards and eventually upgraded that to sentence flashcards to learn basic vocab and then picked up CI later, but a listening first, CI based approach worked so well for me in French that I want to try it with a language that is much less related to a language I already know (although I will admit while watching sudoku I noticed I got 3 and 9 for free from Japanese 
). My listening skills actually kinda backfired on me in French because I got to such a high level so quickly that I outgrew the learner content faster than I could watch it and now I’m stuck in a purgatory of not quite enough skills to read or watch what I want + not a ton of things that I’m actually excited for. That second problem is not a problem in Korean though
I am fairly biased against Matt and kinda assume that anything his fans engage in would be toxic (see r/learnjapanese ), but that’s pretty unfair to completely write off an entire tool without looking at it first, so I’ll go check that out too.
Oh that is a lot! I’ll have to look into them later today!
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Yeah I also didn’t vibe with CI content in the beginning so I just jumped straight into native media with kr subs + a vocab anki deck and it worked great for me. You’ve definitely just got to play around until you find that perfect mix of fun & comprehensible I think.
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Matt & refold at least recommend some grammar studies. Look at the popular ‘Dreaming Spanish’ and they specify no grammar study!
TBH, whatever works for you, works for you, but yeah for some reason the Comprehensible Input programs really get prescriptive and all-encompassing
I love the content that all these Comprehensible Input youtube channels are pumping out though (Comprehensible Thai, Dreaming Spanish, 태웅쌤, etc) so can’t complain too much… they’re doing great work! 
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