Total spending on private education for young children in South Korea, July–September 2024
Child speech technology
Understand your child’s responses. Decide what comes next.
We use children’s own responses to help parents and professionals make informed decisions about what comes next.
Kaffol TestKaffol AIChild development research
Why we started Kaffol Labs
Understanding a child starts with their own responses.
Parents watch their children every day. Yet when an important decision comes, it can be hard to know whether those observations are enough.
That is why we look at the language children understand and express themselves. We help parents think about the conversations they can have with their child, rather than adding to their worries.
The context behind difficult choices
Why decisions have become harder for parents
In South Korea, participation in private education rises rapidly as children grow. More options have made it harder to find a basis for choosing what suits each child.
Private education participation among young children in South Korea, 2024
Private education participation among five-year-olds in South Korea, 2024
Source: South Korea’s Ministry of Education and Statistics Korea, 2024 Pilot Survey on Private Education Expenditure for Young ChildrenView the official source (Korean)
What we build
One team for assessments and analysis technology.
01Available
Kaffol Test
Assessments that consider both children’s and guardians’ perspectives
We offer language assessments in which children participate directly, alongside questionnaires completed by guardians.
02R&D
Kaffol AI
Understanding children’s voices better
Speech recognition trained for children’s speech is connected with age-based data and evaluation rules to support interpretation grounded in actual responses.
Early field feedback
What we learned from a small pilot
Through small recruitment rounds and consultations, we explored where parents hesitate and what they want to understand better.
Members of a local parent community
Internal survey respondents willing to pay for an education program
Time to fill 10 places in the report MVP
MVP participants who went on to a follow-up consultation
These figures come from small internal studies before launch in 2026. They are early signals from a limited sample and recruitment channels, and do not represent the overall market.
Our principles
A score alone cannot explain a child
We respect children’s responses and clearly state how far our research has progressed. Results should help people continue the conversation.
Children’s own responses
Children respond to pictures and spoken questions by tapping or speaking, rather than relying only on a guardian’s recollection.
Connecting research and technology
We bring psychometric item research and child speech technology into the same product experience.
Interpretation that helps with next steps
Respecting each child’s growth and individual differences, we provide results as a reference for conversations about learning and parenting.
Today and next steps
We distinguish what is available from what is in preparation.
View products and roadmapKaffol Test for families, on the web
We offer language assessments completed directly by children and parent-report questionnaires completed by guardians.
Kaffol AI for children’s speech
We are researching and validating our ASR+LoRA and an interpretation framework that connects results to evidence.
Field pilots and local AI
Our long-term roadmap includes Kaffol Center for consultation settings and Kaffol AI Mini for the home.
Work with us
We are looking for partners to research and validate child development technology together.
We welcome business, research, public-sector, and field-pilot partnerships.
Discuss a partnership