Heonki Lee · Native Korean copywriter
Your message, rewritten to work in Korean.
I turn your existing copy into Korean marketing copy that persuades — your exact meaning kept, taken past a word-for-word version into Korean a native actually responds to. Translation taken all the way to copy, by a native.
Word-for-word vs. natural
Accurate isn’t the same as persuasive.
Your original, a word-for-word Korean translation, and the natural version — side by side. The word-for-word one is correct; the natural one gives a Korean reader a reason to keep reading.
Your original
“The all-in-one tool for your team.”
Word-for-word
당신의 팀을 위한 올인원 도구.
Written for Koreans
팀에 필요한 모든 것, 하나로.
Why — Swaps the borrowed “all-in-one” for a phrase Korean marketing actually uses.
Your original
“You must apply for renewal at least 30 days before your permit expires, unless an exemption applies.”
Word-for-word
허가 만료 최소 30일 전에 갱신을 신청해야 하며, 면제가 적용되지 않는 한 그렇습니다.
Written for Koreans
허가 만료 30일 전까지 갱신을 신청해야 합니다. 다만 면제 대상인 경우는 예외입니다.
Why — Both columns keep the exception, and that is the point. What moves is where it sits: English can hang “unless…” on the end of a sentence, Korean cannot. Read the middle column aloud and it trails off — and it trails off exactly where someone is checking whether the exemption covers them. So the exception gets a sentence of its own. Nothing is softened, nothing is added; it is simply findable.
Two examples, two different jobs: an ad line, and a paragraph from an official guide. The first is rewritten to persuade. The second is not.
The craft
Native Korean, written to be read.
- — Written by a Korean native — copy, not just word-swapping, in the Korean your readers expect marketing to sound like.
- — Your meaning and intent kept — I work from your own copy, never off in my own direction.
- — Your tone carried into Korean — formal, warm, or punchy, matched to your brand.
- — Plain, current Korean, free of translationese — the way Korean B2B actually reads today, not stiff, textbook Korean.
- — Whatever language your copy is in — I write only into Korean. Korean is my native language; I don’t write into languages I’m not native in.
Who you work with
Available for new work
One native Korean, writing your copy.
You work with me directly — no agency layer, no handoff to a stranger, no project manager in between.
I write your Korean myself — and because I design and build pages too, the copy is written to fit your layout and hierarchy, not just sit in a doc.
How it starts
One exact number, before anything starts.
- 1 Send me your pages — in whatever language they’re written — and tell me which you want in Korean.
- 2 I read them and send back one exact number for the whole project, with a timeline.
- 3 You approve it and the work starts — prepaid by invoice.
Pricing
From $400, quoted per project.
- — Projects start at $400, quoted by the pages you want in Korean.
- — What sets the price is how much each page takes to get right — Korean written from your original, or Korean you already have reworked.
- — You get one exact number for the whole project before anything is agreed.
Questions
- Is this translation or copywriting?
- Both, really. I keep your meaning but write it as Korean copy that persuades — based on your own copy, not a literal word-for-word translation, and not invented from scratch either.
- Do you work from any language?
- Yes — your copy can be in any language. What I don’t do is the other direction: I write into Korean only, because that’s the one language I’m native in.
- How much, and how fast?
- Projects start at $400, quoted up front. Send me your pages and I’ll give you one exact number based on how much each takes. Most work comes back within a few days.