English carries respect in the voice: how you say it, how loud, how warm. Korean carries it in the grammar. The ending on the verb tells the room whether the speaker is addressing them as a gathered congregation, as a friend, or as a child. There is no way to leave it blank, and a translation that picks the wrong one has said something about the listener that the speaker never meant.
Korean puts the verb last, and the part of the verb that carries the respect is the very last thing said. That is a problem for anything translating a few words at a time, and it is one of the clearest arguments for translating whole thoughts rather than running pieces.
Halfway through a Korean sentence, the level of respect has not been decided, because the piece that decides it has not arrived. A tool that emits Korean as it goes has to guess, and once it has guessed it is committed for the whole sentence.
Korean also marks respect toward whoever the sentence is about, separately from the person being addressed. When the subject is God, that marking is not optional. Drop it and the sentence is grammatical and cold.
A Korean listener notices in the first sentence. Not because they are looking for faults, but because the information is right there in the grammar and cannot be ignored, the way you cannot help noticing whether somebody used your name or not.
Six Danish lines went into every language at once, the way a live room runs. Nothing has been touched since. Here are three of the Korean ones, and what each one settled.
여러분은 은혜로 말미암아 믿음으로 구원을 받았습니다. 이것은 여러분에게서 난 것이 아니라 하나님의 선물입니다.
From the Danish Af nåde er I frelst ved tro, og det skyldes ikke jer selv, det er Guds gave.
여러분 is how a speaker addresses a gathered congregation, and the ending on the verb is the formal level a sermon uses. 말미암아 is not modern conversational Korean at all. It is the Bible's phrasing, and it is the phrasing a Korean Christian has heard since childhood.
그리고 성령께서 그들 모두 위에 임하시자 그들이 다른 언어들로 말하기 시작했습니다.
From the Danish Og Ånden faldt over dem alle sammen, og de begyndte at tale på andre sprog.
Look at 께서 and at the syllable inside 임하시자. Both are honorific marking, and both are there because the subject is the Holy Spirit. Strip them out and the Korean still parses. It just describes the Spirit the way you would describe the weather.
괜히 멀리 돌아가지 맙시다. 답은 바로 여기 본문에 나와 있습니다.
From the Danish Lad os ikke gå over åen efter vand. Svaret står lige her i teksten.
A Danish saying about crossing the stream to fetch water became a Korean let us, in the form a preacher uses when he is including the room in what he is about to say. The river is gone. The meaning and the manner both survived.
A word for word engine would have produced the plain form or the casual polite form, because those are the ones a dictionary and a phrasebook are built around. The result reads either like a news bulletin or like an adult speaking to a child.
Korean churches have a shared vocabulary that comes from the older Revised translation and from a century of hymns and memorised verses. Words like 은혜 and 구원 have a settled weight, and 말미암아 signals Scripture as clearly as thee and thou once did in English.
여러분은 은혜로 말미암아 믿음으로 구원을 받았습니다.
Ephesians 2:8, as our own run produced it
One more thing worth asking your congregation. Korean Protestants and Korean Catholics do not use the same word for God. If it matters in your room, put the one your people use into Keywords and it will be used every time, in every language you are running.
Three separate questions. Korean answers yes to all three, and the third one is the one Korean congregations tend to care about most.
A Korean speaker can preach and the whole room follows in whatever languages it needs. Korean is one of the 81 languages that can be the source, not only a destination.
Korean on the phone your guest already has, no app and no account. One of 182 languages that can be read.
One of 81 languages that can be heard rather than read. This is where the speech level becomes audible, and where a wrong choice would be impossible to miss.
What a Korean voice has to get right. Not the accent. The ending. A voice that reads a sermon in the casual polite form sounds like a stranger who has decided you are junior to them, and it will be the only thing your guest can hear for the rest of the service. Listen to two minutes with a Korean speaker beside you and you will know within one sentence.
Hangul was made deliberately and published together with an explanation of why the letters are shaped the way they are, which is something almost no other writing system can claim. The consonant shapes are drawn from the position of the mouth that makes them.
Korean letters are grouped into square syllable blocks rather than strung out in a line, so a Korean word looks like a small grid. It reads fast and it sets cleanly, but it wants a little more line height than Latin text at the same size.
Korean has a native set of numbers and a set borrowed from Chinese, and which one you use depends on what you are counting. Ages, hours, floors and chapter numbers do not all take the same set.
One thing to know about how this will go if it goes wrong.
From what the sentence is doing and who it is aimed at. A talk given to a gathered room is a different act from one person speaking to another, and the translation is built to tell them apart. The Korean on this page is what it settled on with nobody steering it.
Not in a way anybody notices. Your guest follows along with the talk rather than behind it. What they get is a finished sentence rather than a stream of words, which in Korean is the difference between reading and guessing.
What MulingStream produces is the standard of South Korea, which is what almost every Korean speaker in Europe reads and hears. If you have a specific need here, talk to us rather than assume.
Yes. Korean can be the language on the stage as well as one of the languages in the pews, so a visiting Korean speaker preaches and everybody else reads or hears their own language at the same moment.
Or read how the translation itself works, in Smart Translation.
Sit a Korean speaker down with an earbud, run five minutes of your own talk, and ask them what the ending sounded like.