The AI chatbot that started the generative AI boom. When Korean users type 챗지피티 (chaet-ji-pi-ti) on a QWERTY keyboard still set to English, the keys produce cotwlvlxl. This page explains the mapping and how to make the most of ChatGPT as a Korean user.
On the standard Korean 두벌식 (2-set) layout, typing while the input is still in English mode maps each Korean character to a specific QWERTY key. The Korean name 챗지피티 is typed as these keys:
Put together: 챗지피티 typed in English mode spells cotwlvlxl. Korean users searching for ChatGPT who forget to press the 한/영 key first land on this search term — and Google's intent matching now routes many of these searches to ChatGPT results.
ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant from OpenAI that can write, summarize, translate, code, and reason across almost any topic. It tracks context across a long conversation and produces structured output like tables, code blocks, or formal essays on demand. The GPT-4o model underneath also accepts images as input and speaks dozens of languages natively.
South Korea ranks among the top five countries by ChatGPT usage per capita. University students use it for 레포트 and 자기소개서 drafts, while developers use it for pair programming. Korean-language output quality is excellent — ChatGPT has passed the 수능 Korean section in multiple independent benchmarks, and it handles 존댓말 and 반말 registers correctly when prompted.