Korean

Korean translation services

Classification

Koreanic > Korean

Script

Korean (Hangul)

Text direction

Left-to-right

Speakers

70 million

Other names

Official language

South Korea, North Korea

Interesting Fact

The name of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, simply means "the Capital" in Korean.

Profile

Korean is a language isolate, meaning that there is no genealogical relationship with other languages.

In the 1440s the Korean Hanja writing system, which was based on the Chinese script, was replaced with a phonetic alphabet called “Hangul” by King Sejong the Great. Korean also used to be written from top-to-bottom and right-to-left but these days it is written left-to-right in rows.

Korean includes many “counting words” where you would use a different word depending on what you are counting. For people, you would add “bun”, “geuru” for trees, “tol” for uncooked rice and “tong” for watermelons, for example.

Services offered for this language

Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting

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