TOPIK II (Korean) flashcards
21 decks · 1,784 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: About 1,400 frequent TOPIK II words of the TOPIK public vocabulary list (2015), chosen by the National Institute of Korean Language's frequency ranks, with grammar patterns and in-context cloze; spelling and spacing per the Standard Korean Dictionary. Updated 2026-10-10.
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Learn · 18 decks · 1,558 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Grammar Patterns
60 patterns commonly taught for TOPIK II: cause (-는 바람에, -느라고), addition and contrast, -다면 and other conditions, -더라고요 and -던, -(으)ㄴ 채로, -게 되다, degree, purpose, indirect speech, guessing and time — with connection rules and original examples.
Core Vocabulary, Part 1
One hundred words for TOPIK II (levels 3–4): society and media, work, study, health, environment, feelings and relationships, home and money, thinking and talking, and key adverbs. Each word has an original polite sentence on the front; words the TOPIK list places at TOPIK I are marked.
Core Vocabulary, Part 2
Eighty-seven of the most frequent TOPIK II words: society and politics, work, study, health, feelings, daily life, opinions, people, culture, travel, time and change, amounts, key verbs and function words — each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 3
Eighty-seven frequent TOPIK II words: society and law, work and the economy, study, people and roles, places, time and change, amounts, thinking and talking, everyday actions and linking adverbs — each with an original polite sentence on the front (written style for mostly written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 4
Eighty-eight frequent TOPIK II words: society and the press, work and management, study and analysis, feelings and conflict, time and change, degree, and the adverbs and set phrases of written Korean — each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 5
Eighty-seven TOPIK II words by frequency: trade and the economy, society and news, health and the body, feelings and relationships, judgment and opinion, time, culture and key adverbs — each with an original polite sentence on the front (news words in written style).
Core Vocabulary, Part 6
Eighty-seven frequent TOPIK II words: society, law and politics, work and the economy, nature, feelings and relationships, daily life and money, culture, and key adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 7
Eighty-eight more TOPIK II words in frequency order: society and the economy, culture and the arts, people, places, time and change, amounts, feelings, thinking and talking, actions and qualities, and adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 8
Eighty-seven intermediate TOPIK II words in frequency order: society and the law, work and money, study, feelings, daily life, time, amounts, and everyday verbs and qualities — each with an original polite sentence on the front (written style for mostly written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 9
Eighty-eight frequent TOPIK II words: society and law, work, health, nature, feelings, home and money, people, places, time, amounts, everyday actions and key adverbs — each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 10
Eighty-seven frequent TOPIK II words: society, work and the economy, study, health, nature, feelings and relationships, daily life and money, culture, people, places and key adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (written style for mostly written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 11
Eighty-seven more TOPIK II words in frequency order: feelings and character, home life and money, culture and the arts, nature and weather, places, society and the economy, amounts, and key adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 12
Eighty-eight more TOPIK II words in frequency order: society and the news, work, study, health, feelings, daily life and money, culture and the arts, thinking and talking, actions and qualities, and adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 13
Eighty-seven more TOPIK II words in frequency order: society and news, work, people, culture, places, time and change, amounts, feelings, daily life, everyday actions and qualities, and adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 14
Eighty-seven more TOPIK II words in frequency order: society and the law, work, money and daily life, health, nature, feelings, culture, time and amounts, actions and qualities, and adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 15
Eighty-eight more TOPIK II words in frequency order: health, work, daily life, nature, feelings, culture, time and change, amounts, thinking and talking, actions and qualities, and adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 16
Part 16 of the TOPIK II core words in frequency order: society and the law, daily life and the home, feelings, culture and customs, places, time, and key adverbs and spoken interjections. Each word has an original polite sentence on the front (written style for mostly written words).
Core Vocabulary, Part 17
The last 88 TOPIK II words of the frequency selection: feelings, nature and the body, daily life and money, work and study, amounts and time, thinking and talking, actions and qualities, and adverbs, each with an original polite sentence on the front (news style for written words).
Drills · 2 decks · 181 cards
Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.
In Context, Part 1
Ninety TOPIK II sentences, each blanking one word from Parts 1–9 (society, work, study, health, environment, feelings, home and money, culture, change and everyday actions) so you produce it from context, verbs and adjectives in the form the sentence needs, with the English gloss as the hint.
In Context, Part 2
Ninety-one TOPIK II sentences, each blanking one word from Parts 10–17 (feelings, home and money, health, nature, actions and time) so you produce it from context, verbs and adjectives in the form the sentence needs, with the English gloss as the hint.
Practice · 1 deck · 45 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Cause & Reason 8
- Addition & Contrast 9
- Conditions 8
- Recollection & Discovery 8
- State & Change 12
- Degree & Extent 5
- Purpose & Intention 6
- Indirect Speech 10
- Guessing & Appearance 5
- Time & Sequence 6
- Society & Media 124
- Work & Career 116
- Education & Study 57
- Health 71
- Environment & Weather 91
- Feelings & Relationships 131
- Daily Life & Money 183
- Thinking & Communicating 122
- Adverbs & Function Words 197
- Culture & Arts 79
- People & Roles 55
- Places & Travel 59
- Time & Change 94
- Amounts & Degree 83
- Actions & Qualities 236
- Home & Daily Life 3
- Money & Shopping 2
- Adverbs 4
A study plan
- 64 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 32 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 22 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
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Every deck is built into Willys
All 21 TOPIK II (Korean) decks (1,784 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
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About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Grammar points reflect patterns commonly taught at TOPIK II level; nearly all are on the intermediate grammar list (sheet 공개 문법 목록 of the file 한국어능력시험 중급 어휘 목록(공개용).xlsx) that the National Institute for International Education attached to its 2009-04-17 notice '한국어능력시험 초급/중급 어휘·문법 목록 안내' in the TOPIK 자료실 at topik.go.kr, made for the earlier test format (no newer official grammar list is assumed). Spelling, spacing and conjugations checked against the National Institute of Korean Language's Standard Korean Dictionary (표준국어대사전) and Hangul orthography rules. Reference only; all explanations and example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows the TOPIK public vocabulary list (2015, 토픽 어휘 목록 공개 목록) for TOPIK II (중급) and TOPIK I (초급), via julienshim/combined_korean_vocabulary_list; the cards are grouped by topic. Spelling, spacing and meanings checked against the Standard Korean Dictionary (표준국어대사전); romanization follows the Revised Romanization of Korean (2000). Reference only; all glosses and example sentences are original. Headwords from the TOPIK I list are marked on their cards.
- Word selection follows the TOPIK public vocabulary list (2015, 토픽 어휘 목록 공개 목록) for TOPIK II (중급), ordered by the National Institute of Korean Language's learner word list (2003, KOGL Type 1); both via julienshim/combined_korean_vocabulary_list. Spelling, spacing and meanings checked against the Standard Korean Dictionary (표준국어대사전); romanization follows the Revised Romanization of Korean (2000). Reference only; all glosses and example sentences are original.
- Answers are headwords of this folder's vocabulary decks; word selection follows the TOPIK public vocabulary list (2015, 토픽 어휘 목록 공개 목록) for TOPIK II (중급). Spelling, spacing and meanings checked against the Standard Korean Dictionary (표준국어대사전). All sentences are original.
- Words are carded in the Korean TOPIK II — Core Vocabulary decks or are TOPIK I (초급) words in the TOPIK public vocabulary list (2015, 토픽 어휘 목록 공개 목록, via julienshim/combined_korean_vocabulary_list); a few, such as 외식 and 말하기 and the verbs 수리하다 and 만족하다 (from the listed nouns 수리 and 만족), are TOPIK II (중급) words there that the decks do not card. Grammar patterns are those of the Korean TOPIK II — Grammar Patterns deck, plus TOPIK I patterns. Spelling, spacing and conjugations checked against the National Institute of Korean Language's Standard Korean Dictionary (표준국어대사전) and Hangul orthography rules. Reference only.
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