One of the major blogging services in Korea, Naver, blocks web crawlers not to index the blog pages and any of the links. SEO works only in local market and it won’t be easy for foreign-based companies to enter the local Adword market.
Tag: english to korean
Microsoft Azure: Unorganized localizations
en-US: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/ ko-KR: https://azure.microsoft.com/ko-kr/regions/ Country name “Australia” reads two different spells in target. This is a typical example done by unorganized localization agencies.
The Triple Package by Amy Chua
delta.com: Literal wordings won’t meet the market standard 37
source: http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/special-travel-needs/medical.html target: http://ko.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/special-travel-needs/medical.html Word-for-word translation delivers the meaning however, in most cases, the sentence structure and grammar are ignored. On the other hand, the client ends up with losing customers.
eurail.com: Localization can go wrong – inconsistent spells 36
source: http://www.eurail.com/destinations target: http://kr.eurail.com/destinations The famous festival ‘Oktoberfest’ reads two different spells in the same page. The search terms don’t show any results.