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Korean captions

Add Korean subtitles to a video on iPhone

Capster transcribes Korean audio automatically — the language is detected, so there is nothing to choose — and exports the clip with the captions rendered into the frames. It is one of 99 languages the app handles, and the whole job runs on the phone in about two minutes.

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한국어 · Hangul · iPhone, iOS 16.0+ · Updated September 2026

What a Korean caption looks like

Korean creators caption almost everything, and the question they actually need answered is whether the app can draw Hangul at all — most product pages never say.

영상에 자막을 2분 만에 넣으세요

“Put subtitles on your video in two minutes” — 한국어, set here in your device's own Hangul font. In the app, no caption font covers Hangul, so iOS draws it in Apple SD Gothic Neo. The font picker has no effect on Korean captions; every other style control does.

Which fonts render Korean

Checked against every one of the 18 bundled caption fonts in September 2026, by reading each font's own character map rather than trusting its name.

The typeface

No caption font covers Hangul, so iOS draws it in Apple SD Gothic Neo. The font picker has no effect on Korean captions; every other style control does.

Nothing renders as an empty box — iOS substitutes Apple SD Gothic Neo and the text is sharp. It is the font choice that has no effect, not the rendering.

Everything else in the style panel

Text size and colour, outline colour and width, letter case, background, word highlight, layout effect, animation and position all behave exactly as they do in English.

Every style control, and which tier has it.

Three things to watch for in Korean

  • The caption fonts do not cover Hangul. None of the 18 bundled caption fonts include Hangul, so iOS draws Korean captions in Apple SD Gothic Neo. Colour, outline, background, highlight, position and animation all still apply — the typeface is the one control that does not.
  • Syllable blocks are square and even. Hangul sets as uniform blocks rather than letters of varying width, so a Korean caption line is more predictable to place than a Latin one — but it is wider per syllable.
  • Honorific endings change the register, not the meaning. The transcript follows exactly how the speaker ends each sentence. If you are captioning for a different audience than you spoke to, that ending is what you would edit, and it is usually the last word of the caption.

How to do it

  1. 1

    Import the clip

    Pick a video from Photos. There is no account and nothing to set up, and no language to choose — Capster detects it from the audio.

  2. 2

    Let the Korean audio transcribe

    The audio track is sent for transcription and comes back as Korean text with word-level timing. The video itself is never uploaded.

  3. 3

    Read the transcript before you style it

    Tap any caption to fix a word. Machine transcription of Korean is good, not perfect, and names are where it slips.

  4. 4

    Pick a style

    Colour, outline, background, word highlight, position and animation all apply. The typeface does not — iOS draws Hangul in Apple SD Gothic Neo whichever font you pick.

  5. 5

    Export with the captions burned in

    You get one finished video with the captions rendered into the frames, ready to post without switching anything on.

Questions people ask

Can I add Korean subtitles to a video on my iPhone?

Yes. Capster transcribes Korean automatically — you do not pick the language, it is detected from the audio — and exports the video with the captions burned into the frames. It is one of 99 languages the app handles, and the whole job happens on the phone.

Which caption fonts work with Korean?

No caption font covers Hangul, so iOS draws it in Apple SD Gothic Neo. The font picker has no effect on Korean captions; every other style control does. Everything else in the style panel — colour, outline, background, word highlight, position, animation — works exactly as it does in English.

Do I have to choose Korean before transcribing?

No. The language is detected from the audio, so there is no picker and nothing to get wrong. If a clip mixes two languages, the transcript follows what was actually said, which is usually what you want on short-form video.

Are Korean captions burned into the video?

Yes. The captions are rendered into the frames rather than attached as a separate subtitle track, so every viewer sees them by default and nothing is lost when the platform re-encodes your upload. There is no SRT file, by design.

Can I try it free?

Yes. 5 transcriptions per install, clips up to 2 minutes, and 2 caption styles, and the export is never blocked — free exports carry a small Capster badge and a short end card instead.

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Free to try: 5 transcriptions, clips up to 2 minutes, exports carry a small Capster badge. iPhone, iOS 16.0+. No account.