Maru / 마루
You don’t get invited to a 마루.
You just sit down.
마루 is the open wooden floor of a traditional Korean house. It isn’t a room — it’s the space between the rooms, where the doors stay open and everyone sits together: family, neighbours, whoever wandered in.
That’s this. Around a hundred of us so far, talking every day.
Who’s sitting here
Fifty countries, one floor.
Every country below is one someone actually wrote in from. They found the same door from fifty different places, and now it’s one conversation — not a feed to scroll past, but people who know your name and notice when you’ve been quiet.
The Americas
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Jamaica
Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Europe
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Czechia
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Latvia
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
United Kingdom
Africa & the Middle East
Algeria
Egypt
Ethiopia
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Morocco
Nigeria
South Africa
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Asia & Oceania
Australia
Bangladesh
Cambodia
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
In person
Once a month, in the same room.
마루 is a floor you sit on, not a place you log into. So once a month we use a real one — the same conversation, in person, for however long it runs.
The first one is Sat 22 August 2026, 13:00 – 15:00, in Seoul.
What we do there →How to join
It runs on Telegram, and the way in is one form.
Fill it in completely and I’ll send you the invite myself. I keep the link off this page on purpose — everyone on the floor got there the same way, which is why it still feels like a room and not a comment section.
Nothing to prove first. Come and read for a while before you say anything, if that’s easier — most people do.
Takes a minute. Already studying with me? You’re in it already.