Generate subtitles for your Korean videos

About Korean transcription

Korean (한국어) is written in Hangul and spoken principally in South Korea and North Korea. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Korean, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Korean marks formality grammatically, and the register a speaker uses carries real information — transcription preserves it rather than flattening everything into one politeness level. Hangul is featural and compact, so Korean subtitle lines tend to fit comfortably in two rows.

What a Korean subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in Hangul with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
여러분, 안녕하세요.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
제 목소리가 잘 들리시나요?

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
자세한 내용은 잠시 후에 공유하겠습니다.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
오늘은 여기까지입니다.

Register in a Korean transcript

Korean marks politeness grammatically, so the level a speaker uses carries real information about who they are addressing. Transcription preserves it rather than flattening everything to one register.

That makes a transcript useful as a record of how something was said, not only what was said — worth knowing before you edit it toward consistency.

Line length in Korean

Korean builds meaning by stacking endings onto a stem, producing few words but long ones. Lines come out dense rather than wordy.

Shorter subtitle blocks read better as a result, and splitting one across two events costs nothing — the timings come from the speech either way.

What people caption in Korean

The Korean material that comes through most often is variety and drama clips, lectures, interviews and vlogs and streams. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.

Getting a better Korean transcript

• Set the language to Korean rather than leaving detection on, particularly for clips under a minute where there is little audio to judge from.
• Upload the highest-quality audio you have; compression artefacts cost more accuracy than most people expect.
• Check proper nouns, place names and numbers first — recognition errors concentrate there.
• Read the transcript before exporting. Korean subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Korean subtitles in another language

The same Korean audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Korean itself. English is the most common target, but every pair works, and the translated file keeps the original timings so it drops onto the same video unchanged.