Giyuri is a Korean girl studying in China, currently at Nanjing University. Her Douyin bio is simple: "I'm Korean, studying in Nanjing, please take care of me!" This adorable girl became Chinese netizens' source of joy through cute expressions and "plastic" Chinese.
Her signature skill is "yǐdú luànhuí" (reading the question and answering nonsense): she mishears, misunderstands, then responds with total seriousness. At a Chinese-medicine clinic, the doctor asked "do you usually sleep on your side?" — she heard "sleep in the toilet". Doctor said look down, she looked up; the masseur said lean back, she leaned forward. These classic moments gained her 2.75 million followers in one month; she now has over 6 million.
Her "first experience" series is a hit: first Chinese-medicine visit, first massage, first bathhouse, first tastes of Chinese food. Her exaggerated Korean reactions plus earnestness make every episode a mini comedy. In late 2025 her video with a 70-year-old potato-seller grandma in Guiyang went viral with tens of millions of views; she even visited the grandma for her birthday.
"I just film my real life," she says. From a Korean girl to a million-fan "misheard-reply master", Giyuri brings Chinese and Korean netizens closer through sincerity and laughter.
Kihon Yuri (b. mid-1990s), a Korean exchange student, became famous for her "read-but-answered-wrongly" style - replying to netizens in Korean-accented Chinese with delightfully off-topic answers, dubbed the "queen of nonsensical replies".
Background: a Korean national studying in China, her Chinese is still improving. Her Korean speech habits plus unconventional replies create a unique "variety-show feel".
What "answered wrongly" means: asked "are you Korean?", she answers "am I Chinese? No. Am I Korean? Yes!" - logically odd but adorable, making people laugh. She never answers the question as expected but always lands the joke.
Significance: she represents the "genuine growth blogger" - imperfect but sincere; she improves and audiences witness it. This realistic "coming-of-age" charm beats polished content.
Lesson: in language learning, mistakes are not scary; silence is. She proves that daring to speak, dare to err and laugh at yourself brings the fastest progress and the most fans.
Her comment section is a "warm classroom": netizens write "do not worry, your Chinese is improving" or "this phrase should be said like this", and she replies earnestly with thanks. She turns "being corrected" into "being encouraged" and the comment section into a learning community. Every language learner can borrow this mode - fear laughter less, fear having no one to practise with more.
Her bio reads: "Chinese still in progress, please bear with me." That sentence itself is very Chinese. She never hides her rough edges but makes "still improving" part of the content. Her comment section grows daily - everyone practises Chinese with her while she teaches the joy of "Korean-style Chinese". The best language learning is having company while slowly getting better.
