Korean Deposition Translation
Korean deposition translation in both directions: a US deposition transcript translated into Korean for the witness, Korean counsel or a Korean court, and the Korean 진술조서, 피의자신문조서 and exhibits that stand in for a deposition on the Korean side, translated into certified English for a US case.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Korean deposition records
Korea has no pre-trial deposition
Korean procedure has no pre-trial deposition. A judge examines witnesses in court, and police and prosecutors take statements into a 조서. What crosses the Pacific is a US transcript that needs Korean, or Korean records and exhibits that need English.
US transcripts into Korean
Korean engineers and managers deposed in US patent, trade secret and product cases testify through an interpreter, and the certified record is the English transcript. The witness reviewing the errata sheet, and Korean counsel running a parallel case in Seoul, want it in Korean, and a Korean court takes a foreign-language document only with a Korean translation attached. We keep the page and line numbering, the speaker labels, the objections and the interpreter's oath, and render question and answer in the register each was spoken, so a passage can be cited by page and line in either language.
Korean 조서 into English
A 진술조서 is a witness statement taken by a police officer or prosecutor, a 피의자신문조서 the same for a suspect, and an 증인신문조서 the court clerk's record of testimony before a judge. Each is written in question-and-answer form by the official, not the speaker, ends with the line that the maker read it and had no objection, and carries the maker's 간인 across every page join and a thumbprint. The translation labels the official, the maker and each seal, and keeps the case number as written, since 2023고단1234 tells a Korean lawyer the year, the court division and the serial.
Exhibits: 품의서, 결재선 and internal chat
The exhibits attached to a Korean witness's testimony are company papers: a 품의서 with its row of approval seals, a 결재선 showing who signed off in what order, 회의록 and messages from 카카오톡 or the company messenger. Job titles such as 부장, 차장, 과장 and 대리 have no fixed US equivalent, and discovery depends on the same term meaning the same thing across thousands of pages. We build a term list at the start of a project and translate the title once with the Korean kept beside it.
Who is asking for your Korean deposition translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Courts
A deposition filed in a US court needs a complete English translation with a signed certification from the translator. Some judges want it notarized as well, so check the local rules.
Bankruptcy courts
A Rule 2004 examination or a deposition in a bankruptcy case is filed with a certified translation of the testimony and of any foreign-language exhibits.
Courts abroad
Testimony taken in the US for a case in another country usually goes out with an apostille on the reporter's certificate and a translation into that country's language.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Korean deposition.
Send the certified transcript, not the rough draft
Court reporters issue a rough draft first and the certified transcript later. Order the translation from the certified copy, with the reporter's certificate page.
Include the exhibits the witness was asked about
A deponent is often questioned on a letter or a contract marked as an exhibit. If those are in another language too, upload them in the same order so the terms are translated the same way.
Expect many pages and tell us the deadline
A transcript can run to a few hundred pages, and the quote counts words, not sheets. Upload the file to see the price before you pay, and put the filing date in the order notes.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Korean deposition translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the deposition is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Korean Deposition FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Can you supply the interpreter for the deposition itself?
- No. This service is written translation. The deposition interpreter and the check interpreter are arranged by the parties and the court reporter, and the transcript they produce is what we translate afterward, along with the exhibits and the errata sheet. Send the final certified transcript rather than a rough draft, since corrections made at signing change the Korean too.
- Will a Korean court accept your translation of a US transcript?
- A Korean court asks that a Korean translation be filed with the foreign document; it does not prescribe who makes it, because Korea has no sworn translators. A translation with our signed certification is what Korean counsel files. If the court or the other side questions it, counsel can have a Korean notary certify the translation, and we provide the file in the form the notary needs.
- The deposition was given in Korean through an interpreter. Which version do you work from?
- The written English transcript, because that is the record. If the deposition was video-recorded and the parties want the Korean audio checked against the interpretation, that is a transcription of the recording, which we can quote separately. For translation into Korean we start from the certified transcript and note in brackets where the English shows the interpreter clarifying a question.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Korean documents we translate
Deposition translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's deposition records.
Sending it with an application? Read the Certified translations before you order.