Korean-Georgian Translation Services in Tbilisi - For Korea's Investors, Students, Tourists and Visa Applicants

Korean and Georgian: a young pair growing fast

Ten years ago Korean-Georgian translation was an exotic request; today it is a steady flow. Korean tourists arrive on direct connections and through Korean travel content that has made Georgia a trend; Korean companies look at Georgian infrastructure, energy, IT and agriculture, and Korean investors at real estate; Georgian students go to Korea on the Global Korea Scholarship and to Korean universities on their own account; Georgian workers apply for Korean E-7 and seasonal visas; Georgian wine, mineral water and hazelnuts sell in Seoul; and Georgian and Korean families form through marriage. Each connection produces documents in Hangul that Georgian authorities need in Georgian, and documents in Georgian that Korean authorities - immigration, district offices, universities, courts - need in Korean.

Korea has no sworn-translator system; translations for Korean authorities are certified by a notary (공증) or by the translator's declaration, and foreign documents need an apostille, which Korea issues both on paper and electronically. Georgia has the notarized translation. Korean names are romanized in several ways and Korean civil status is recorded in a family relation registry unlike anything in Georgia. Our Korean team at David Agmashenebeli Ave 117 - native Korean translators registered with the notary and Georgian translators with Korean university training - handles all of this daily.

Translation directions for Korean

• Korean → Georgian: 여권 (passports) and 주민등록증 (resident registration cards), 운전면허증 (driving licenses), 가족관계증명서, 기본증명서 and 혼인관계증명서 (family relation, basic and marriage certificates), 범죄경력회보서 (criminal record), 졸업증명서 and 성적증명서 (diplomas and transcripts), 사업자등록증 and 법인등기부등본 (business and corporate registrations), 위임장 (powers of attorney), 근로계약서, bank statements and medical records entering the Georgian system, always notarized in Georgia. Passports and driving licenses are translated from a photo without a visit.
• Georgian → Korean: Georgian civil status certificates, diplomas, court rulings, Public Registry extracts, medical records and contracts for Korean immigration, district offices, universities, courts and companies, notarized and apostilled.
• Korean ↔ English: direct translation for Korean companies working in English with Georgian partners, for university admissions and for tourism and trade content.

Korean personal names are transliterated into Georgian consistently with the romanization in the passport, and we keep the Hangul original in the reference line so identity is traceable.

What Korean and Georgian authorities expect from each other's documents

Korea has been a Hague Apostille member since 2007, the same year as Georgia, so a public document from either country is recognized in the other once apostilled; there is no consular legalization. Korea issues apostilles through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for most documents and the Ministry of Justice for court and notarial ones, and many certificates are now issued and apostilled electronically through the government's online services, which Georgian offices accept when the verification data is translated. Korean authorities - the immigration offices of the Ministry of Justice, the 주민센터 district offices, universities and courts - expect foreign documents apostilled and translated into Korean, with the translation either notarized or accompanied by a translator's certification, and often want a Korean-notarized translation for formal procedures. Georgian authorities require any Korean document translated into Georgian and notarized by a Georgian notary; a Korean 공증 translation is a foreign notarial act and is not accepted on its own.

Pricing and turnaround for Korean-Georgian translation

Korean is priced at the standard per-page tariff (1,800 characters with spaces) with a modest supplement for the rarity of the pair, and fixed prices for passports, 주민등록증, driving licenses and the standard family relation certificates. Visa and scholarship packets are quoted as a bundle. Notary fees, apostille state fees and courier charges to Korea are itemized separately.

• Passport, 주민등록증, driving license, one certificate: 1-2 hours, notarized.
• Korean visa or GKS application set: same day or next day.
• Diploma with transcript: same day or next morning.
• Corporate documents, contracts, court files: 2-4 business days.
• Apostille on a Georgian document for Korea: add 1-5 business days.

How Korean-speaking clients order, in Tbilisi and from Korea

Clients in Tbilisi send a photo on KakaoTalk, WhatsApp or Telegram and receive a quote within 15 minutes, in Korean or English. For passports and driving licenses that is the end of the visit-free process: pay by card or transfer, and the courier brings the notarized translation. For other documents the notary must see the original, so you come to Agmashenebeli 117 once, when the translation is already prepared. Clients in Batumi, Kutaisi and other cities send originals by courier and receive the finished documents back while our regional offices are being renovated. Clients in Seoul, Busan or Incheon who need a Georgian document - a marriage certificate, a diploma, a company extract - arrange for us to collect it from a relative or partner, and we translate, notarize, apostille and ship by DHL, which reaches Korea in three to four days.

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