Korean language introduction

Korean is the official language of North Korea, South Korea, and Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture in People’s Republic of China. Currently this language is spoken by about 78 million people all around the world.

The language codes for Korean:

ISO 639-1: ko

ISO 639-2: kor

ISO 639-3: kor

The basic form of a Korean sentence structure is classified as Subject Object Verb; however, the verb is the only required and immovable element. The other elements of the sentence can be possibly omitted.

Korea foreign market

Korea’s basic trade policies are balanced expansion of external trade, internationalization and liberalization of the local economy, trade diversification, and expanded multilateral cooperation. Korea aims at diversifying the nation’s export market and import sources in order to avoid over-dependence on a few traditional trading partners, most notably the United States and Japan.

Korea is highly dependent on imports both of raw materials, especially energy, and capital goods. Imports of raw materials and capital goods accounted for 53.9% and 36.5% respectively of total imports in 1990. Foreign purchases of consumer goods, on the other hand, accounted for only 9.6% of the total.

Korean SEO marketing

Due to the expanding needs of the imports Korea’s economy relies on, Korean translation and localization markets is growing. Thanks to the internet, the abroad marketing promotion is becoming easier and easier. However, in Korea, the search engine market and environment are totally different from all the other countries around the world.

A good understanding of Korean search engine is a must for people wish to expand their sales and promote their website to Korean web users through SEO strategy. Surprisingly, unlike all the other countries, the famous search engines like “Google” or “Yahoo!” is not familiar to most of the Koreans.

The most common used search engines in Korea is “Naver” and “Daum”. According to the search volume share in Korea, Naver share more than 70% of the market and Daum follow it whereas Yahoo! Korea and Google Korea shares only tiny portion.

Korean Translation, Website localization

If you are targeting Korea market, all you have to do is turn to CCJK Technologies. As indicated from its name “CCJK”, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese and Korean is the four main Asian languages that CCJK Technologies provides.

Established in 2000, CCJK Technologies have 10 years of translation and localization experiences in Asian languages. We manage a pool of more than 150 Korean native translators, editors, engineers and SEO experts in our resource management system. As long as you can provide a website of any other language, we can localize your website into Korean and promote the website into Korean market for you.

We also provide Korean document translation services, software localization and testing services and transcription and voiceover services. For each Korean localization project, we would organize a team consisting of a project manager to communicate with the client for any detailed requirement and updates, Korean translator(s) and editor based on their knowledge of the specific subject area and the target audience and an engineer to provide any technical support during the process. For the past 10 years, we have engaged in hundreds of translation projects targeting Korean.

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