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Professional Korean marketing translation for Hamlyn Terrace businesses. Brochures, websites, campaigns and product materials translated to engage your target audience.
Send us your marketing materials for a free quote. Our Korean translators adapt your message to resonate naturally with your target audience.
Marketing translation goes beyond word-for-word — we adapt your message so it sounds natural and compelling in Korean.
Accurate conversion of meaning from one language to another, maintaining the same structure and content. Best for factual marketing content, product descriptions and technical specifications.
Creative adaptation of your message for the target culture. Slogans, taglines, advertising copy and brand messaging often need transcreation to achieve the same emotional impact in Korean.
Our Korean translators will recommend the best approach based on your content type and goals.
Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean, which in turn descends from Old Korean, which descends from the Proto-Koreanic language which is generally suggested to have its linguistic homeland somewhere in Manchuria. Whitman (2012) suggests that the proto-Koreans, already present in northern Korea, expanded into the southern part of the Korean Peninsula at around 300 BC and coexisted with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families.
Chinese characters arrived in Korea (see Sino-Xenic pronunciations for further information) together with Buddhism during the Proto-Three Kingdoms era in the 1st century BC. They were adapted for Korean and became known as Hanja, and remained as the main script for writing Korean for over a millennium alongside various phonetic scripts that were later invented such as Idu, Gugyeol and Hyangchal. Mainly privileged elites were educated to read and write in Hanja. However, most of the population was illiterate.
Since the Korean War, through 70 years of separation, North-South differences have developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen, but these minor differences can be found in any of the Korean dialects, which are still largely mutually intelligible.