Translate Video to Korean

What to expect when translating into Korean

Korean translations are written in Hangul, with speech levels the translation picks automatically — usually polite forms. Korean puts the verb at the end, so word order changes completely from English.

From English to Korean

English to Korean moves the verb to the end and adds speech levels; translations usually come out in polite forms. Brand names may be written in Hangul or kept in Latin letters depending on context.

Korean translations usually come out in polite speech forms, which suit brands, education and tutorials. Korean audiences tend to expect high production standards from brands, so a native review of key lines is worth it for marketing content.

Loanwords from English are common in Korean, written in Hangul (e.g. 컴퓨터 for computer). Product names may be kept in Latin letters or transliterated — check your Korean site's convention.

Cost: 600 credits (60¢) with a Korean voice, or 12 credits (1.2¢) for Korean subtitles only. English is detected automatically; you only choose Korean.

The Korean voice track

Because Korean puts the verb last, emphasis in the translated voice lands differently from the original — but the timing still follows the original speech segments.

Voice, MP4, subtitles and transcripts: 500 credits (50¢). Subtitles and transcripts only: 10 credits (1¢).

Korean subtitles

Korean subtitles in Hangul are compact, and Korean viewers are used to subtitled foreign content.

Korean (한국어) is written in the Hangul.

Switch Full translation output off for subtitles only: 15 credits (1.5¢). If the video is already in Korean, select Korean as the language instead and the subtitles come back untranslated — see Korean transcription.

Translating audio files into Korean

Podcasts and recordings go through the audio translator, which returns a Korean M4A and transcripts: 1,600 credits ($1.60) with voice, 32 credits (3.2¢) as text only.

Who translates into Korean

Korean is spoken in South Korea and Korean communities worldwide. It's used by companies working with Korean partners, beauty and consumer brands localising English content, and education providers.

Choosing a speech level and a word for "you"

Korean grammar marks politeness in the verb ending. Two polite styles cover most videos: the formal 합니다 style (시작합니다, "we begin"), used in presentations, news and corporate announcements, and the softer 해요 style (시작해요), common in tutorials and creator videos. Both are polite; the problem is a video that mixes them. Search the translated transcript for endings in -습니다 and -요 and settle on one, unless a deliberate change of speaker justifies it.

English "you" is the other trap. Korean usually leaves the listener unnamed or uses a title, and a literal 당신 can sound distant, even confrontational, in marketing and support content. Replace it with 여러분 (everyone) for an audience, 고객님 (valued customer) in service videos, or drop the pronoun altogether. Professional titles such as 팀장님 (team leader) work the same way in internal videos. These are brand decisions; brand voice across languages shows how to record them so every translated video follows the same rules.

Word spacing and subtitle line breaks

Unlike Chinese and Japanese, Korean puts spaces between word units, so subtitle lines can break at spaces just as in English. Spacing rules are a standard proofreading point: 할 수 있다 ("can do") is written with spaces, and machine output sometimes runs it together as 할수있다. Korean readers notice this immediately.

A Hangul syllable block is wider than a Latin letter, so a Korean line holds fewer characters at the same width but carries more meaning per character. Breaking a cue between a noun and its particle (회사 / 는) looks clumsy; break after the particle. Subtitle segmentation explains where line breaks read naturally.

Two number systems and the 만 grouping

3:30 pm

오후 3시 30분, read se-si samsip-bun

5 items

5개, read daseot-gae

1.5 million won

150만 원

October 1, 2026

2026년 10월 1일

Korean uses native numbers (하나, 둘, 셋) for counting objects and for hours, and Sino-Korean numbers (일, 이, 삼) for minutes, dates and money. In subtitles both appear as digits, so nothing looks wrong on screen; the dub is where it shows. "3시 30분" should be read with a native number for the hour and a Sino-Korean one for the minutes. Listen to every time, quantity and price in the preview.

Large numbers are grouped by 만 (ten thousand), so "1.5 million" becomes 150만. Check every figure in the side-by-side view, because a wrong grouping changes the value tenfold.

Loanwords and terms worth deciding up front

Korean business and tech language uses English loanwords written in Hangul: 미팅 (meeting) alongside 회의, 피드백 (feedback), 업데이트 (update). Machine translation may choose the native word where your Korean team says the loanword, or the reverse. Neither is wrong, but your Korean site, app interface and video should use the same term. Feature names that appear on screen should match the Korean interface exactly, letter for letter.

Brand names raise the same question. Many Korean tech and beauty sites keep the brand in Latin letters, while others write it in Hangul by sound. Whichever the subtitles use, the voice has to pronounce a foreign name inside a Korean sentence, so listen to each brand mention in the preview.

Dub or subtitles for Korean viewers

Screen recordings, explainers and training narrated off camera suit a Korean dub, because nobody's mouth is on screen. mydubly has no lip-sync, so a presenter who talks to camera will visibly mismatch the Korean voice; for creator and interview content, Korean subtitles keep the original speaker's personality. More on the trade-off on the AI dubbing page.

Korean proofreading pass

1. One speech level throughout, matched to the video type.
2. No stray 당신; titles or 여러분 where the viewer is addressed.
3. Spacing around 수, 것 and other bound nouns.
4. Native vs Sino-Korean readings of times and counts in the dub.
5. Figures regrouped correctly by 만.
6. Loanwords and feature names matching your Korean interface.

If your source video is already in Korean, Korean transcription covers turning it into text.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.