diff --git a/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml b/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml
index 6d23f144a..a15fc01f8 100644
--- a/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ chinese-pinyin = ["milli/chinese-pinyin"]
 hebrew = ["milli/hebrew"]
 # japanese specialized tokenization
 japanese = ["milli/japanese"]
+# korean specialized tokenization
+korean = ["milli/korean"]
 # thai specialized tokenization
 thai = ["milli/thai"]
 # allow greek specialized tokenization
diff --git a/meilisearch/Cargo.toml b/meilisearch/Cargo.toml
index 75962c450..eacd3dd8e 100644
--- a/meilisearch/Cargo.toml
+++ b/meilisearch/Cargo.toml
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ chinese = ["meilisearch-types/chinese"]
 chinese-pinyin = ["meilisearch-types/chinese-pinyin"]
 hebrew = ["meilisearch-types/hebrew"]
 japanese = ["meilisearch-types/japanese"]
+korean = ["meilisearch-types/korean"]
 thai = ["meilisearch-types/thai"]
 greek = ["meilisearch-types/greek"]
 khmer = ["meilisearch-types/khmer"]
diff --git a/milli/src/search/mod.rs b/milli/src/search/mod.rs
index 19d5ff358..443e4b9c1 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/mod.rs
@@ -336,4 +336,28 @@ mod test {
 
         assert_eq!(documents_ids, vec![1]);
     }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "korean")]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_hangul_language_detection() {
+        use crate::index::tests::TempIndex;
+
+        let index = TempIndex::new();
+
+        index
+            .add_documents(documents!([
+                { "id": 0, "title": "The quick (\"brown\") fox can't jump 32.3 feet, right? Brr, it's 29.3°F!" },
+                { "id": 1, "title": "김밥먹을래。" },
+                { "id": 2, "title": "הַשּׁוּעָל הַמָּהִיר (״הַחוּם״) לֹא יָכוֹל לִקְפֹּץ 9.94 מֶטְרִים, נָכוֹן? ברר, 1.5°C- בַּחוּץ!" }
+            ]))
+            .unwrap();
+
+        let txn = index.write_txn().unwrap();
+        let mut search = Search::new(&txn, &index);
+
+        search.query("김밥");
+        let SearchResult { documents_ids, .. } = search.execute().unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(documents_ids, vec![1]);
+    }
 }