Let's say you want to show your favorite English-language movie or TV show to your Korean "language partner" (wink wink) but her English is not very good. So, you want to show it with Korean subtitles. Where can you get them?
You basically have two options: (1) GOMPlayer or (2) manually download them yourself.
GOMPlayer is by far the most popular desktop video playing software among Koreans. It has a feature of automatically downloading Korean subtitles; just load the video and something pops-up saying "you want Korean subs for this?" but only in the Korean language version (the English version does not).
By the way, GOM (곰) is Korean for "bear" thus the paw icon. GOM Player is great because it has always displayed the subtitles correctly the very first time.
For manual downloading, ignore any English-langauge sites; only the Korean sites will have a decent selection.
There are many out there, but my go-to site is Cinest. Add the title of the movie you're looking for in the search box (the smaller one, next to 제목 ("title")) and hit search. A list of subtitle files comes up. Click one, and download the .smi or .srt file on the resulting page. I usually download 2~3 as the timing will be off on some. Load it in your favorite video player after loading the video.
For example, here's the results page for a search of Korean subtitles to the critically-acclaimed 2009 film "Bruno"
UPDATE - JAN 2014:
Here are some additional useful sites (for television and/or movies):
Usually you can search for the film/show's name in English, but if no results are coming up, you can try it in Hangul. In this case, Naver Movies is your friend.
Once you've got the subtitle files, check this post if you have any issues with encoding.
You basically have two options: (1) GOMPlayer or (2) manually download them yourself.
1. GOMPlayer
GOMPlayer is by far the most popular desktop video playing software among Koreans. It has a feature of automatically downloading Korean subtitles; just load the video and something pops-up saying "you want Korean subs for this?" but only in the Korean language version (the English version does not).
By the way, GOM (곰) is Korean for "bear" thus the paw icon. GOM Player is great because it has always displayed the subtitles correctly the very first time.
2. Manual downloading
For manual downloading, ignore any English-langauge sites; only the Korean sites will have a decent selection.
There are many out there, but my go-to site is Cinest. Add the title of the movie you're looking for in the search box (the smaller one, next to 제목 ("title")) and hit search. A list of subtitle files comes up. Click one, and download the .smi or .srt file on the resulting page. I usually download 2~3 as the timing will be off on some. Load it in your favorite video player after loading the video.
For example, here's the results page for a search of Korean subtitles to the critically-acclaimed 2009 film "Bruno"
UPDATE - JAN 2014:
Here are some additional useful sites (for television and/or movies):
- Subtitles Archive (sample search)
- GomTV (sample search)
- Jamak Nara (sample search)
- nScreen (sorry, can't copy the search URL directly)
Once you've got the subtitle files, check this post if you have any issues with encoding.
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