Ask GodGom
A multilingual travel guide chatbot. Ask in English, Español, Bahasa, ภาษาไทย or 日本語 and GodGom answers in your language, in character.
Being built with Claude by Anthropic.
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.
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.
갓곰
GodGom
A god-tier bear in a gat. Hi.
The 100-day challenge
In Korea's founding myth, a bear lives on mugwort and garlic for 100 days and becomes human. GodGom took the same challenge. 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.
Character profile
- Name
- GodGom (갓곰)
- Class
- Travel buddy
- Species
- Asiatic black bear
- 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 languageTap a question or type one. GodGom answers in the language you asked in.
- 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, 119 and 1330 are always one tap away.
Preview · full demo coming soon
Ask GodGom
PREVIEW
Survival cards · tap to flip
Place stories
Preview with hand-picked answers. The full app answers anything.
Chapter 4 · Now showing
Season 1: twenty shorts
GodGom tries Korea so you don't have to guess. Twenty bite-sized episodes are coming to YouTube, one at a time.
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