KOREAN TRANSLATION
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GENERAL BUSINESS TRANSLATION
GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL TRANSLATION
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TRANSLATION
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRANSLATION
AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE TRANSLATION
KOREAN LANGUAGE FACTS:
NATIVE: 한국어
NATIVE SPEAKERS: 80 million worldwide
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN: Republic of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China
WRITING SYSTEMS: Hangul and Hanja
REGULATED BY: 국립국어원 (National Institute of the Korean Language)
HELPFUL RESOURCES:
Glossaries and Dictionaries:
ISACA® Glossary of Terms English and Korean
Lee, Jeyseon, and Kang-jin Yi. Korean standard dictionary:. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2010.
Academic Research:
Language
Spoken by the Korean people in North Korea and South Korea, the Korean language features a SOV (subject–object–verb) syntax and an agglutinative morphology. Like Japanese, Korean features a complex system of honorifics. These are extremely important to observe in a business setting.
Economic Significance
The Korean language is the key to a competitive and dynamic business environment. South Korea has a population of 48 million people with a literacy rate of 98%. Major exports are consumer electronics, power systems, automobiles and machinery.
History
Most linguists consider Korean to be a language isolate of the Korean language family. A language isolate is a natural language with no discernable link to any other existing language. The Korean script Hangul was first developed in the 15th century. Before that, Classical Chinese script was used in writing.
Dialects
Standard Korean, Hamgyŏng, Pyong'an, Gyeonggi, Chungcheong, Kyŏngsang, Jeolla, Cheju