Korean work reaches us mostly through manufacturing, cosmetics and consumer electronics — sectors where Chinese and Korean supply chains are closely tied.
Every language pair has its own failure modes. These are the ones that decide whether a Korean deliverable is usable.
Korean marks social relationship in verb endings. Documentation, customer-facing copy and legal text each sit at a different level, and consistency across a document set has to be managed deliberately.
Korean word spacing is governed by rules rather than habit, and incorrect spacing changes readability and sometimes sense. It is a common defect in output from non-native workflows.
Legal, academic and older technical material still uses Hanja in places. Recognising when to keep it and when to render it in Hangul is a judgement call.
These are not languages we source ad hoc. Korean is taught as a degree subject at Chinese universities and has been for decades, and there is continuous movement of students, professionals and long-term residents between China and the countries where it is spoken. That is the pool the work is staffed from, and it is why the rate reflects the Chinese market rather than an agency markup.
Written by linguists living in the Chinese market, so the output reads as though it was written for its reader rather than translated toward them.
The Chinese source is read by people to whom its vocabulary is ordinary; the Korean is produced or reviewed by a native speaker at L3 and L4.
Every entry below is a project we have published, with the language direction as recorded on the case study itself.
USD per 1,000 source words. Published in full — no quote request needed to see a number.
| L1 · Angel AI Review | L2 · Angel Pro | L3 · Angel Premium | L4 · Angel Global |
|---|---|---|---|
| $28 | $55 | $92 | $129 |
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