One service for your KM and EM.

If your church has a Korean Ministry (KM, 1세) and an English Ministry (EM, 2세 and 영어예배), Voclyn lets both follow the same service, each in their own language.

Korean preaching, English on phones

The senior pastor preaches in Korean. EM members, spouses and guests scan the church’s QR code, choose English and read along. Church titles come through the way your church says them: the English pack writes 권사 as “Kwonsa (senior lay leader)”, 구역 as “cell group” and 성도 여러분 as “brothers and sisters”.

English preaching, Korean on phones

When the EM pastor preaches in English, parents and elders read it in Korean, in the formal sermon register (합니다·하십시오체), with the congregation addressed as 성도 여러분. On paid plans, those who would rather listen hear an AI voice in Korean through earbuds, labelled AI 음성.

Both in one sentence

A pastor who moves between Korean and English mid-sentence needs nobody at the desk to switch anything: Voclyn detects the language of every phrase. Korean readers see the Korean parts as spoken, marked 원문 (Original), and the English parts translated. How language switching works.

The original words appear on every phone as the pastor speaks, and each sentence is translated right after it ends. How we test.

The same QR code serves members who speak neither Korean nor English. Each person chooses from 100+ languages, such as Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish or Tagalog, so a church with 외국인 성도 or a 다문화 예배 can caption one service for every group at once.

In rooms that don’t include Cantonese, Voclyn also tells voices apart: each speaker’s sentences get their own colour rail on the listener page, labelled Speaker 1, Speaker 2 (발언자 1, 발언자 2 on Korean phones), so a pastor, an interpreter and a reader read apart. How speaker detection works.

The translator writes God as 하나님 unless your glossary says 하느님, so a Catholic parish sets it once and every phone follows. A parish with 성당 or Catholic in its name starts with 하느님, and any church can change it in Settings. Starter packs fill the rest of your tradition’s words, and both the speech engine and the translator use them:

Then add what is yours: your pastors’ names, 목장 or 셀 if that is what your small groups are called, and the names of your ministries. A word corrected in Monday’s transcript becomes a glossary term from the next service.

When the pastor names a passage and reads it, Korean readers see it from the 개역한글 (1961), word for word, marked 출판된 성경 본문 · AI 번역 아님 (Published text · not AI). English readers see the same passage from the Bible your church chose for English, the BSB or the KJV. The big screen shows the verse too, and the Korean AI voice reads the verse itself.

Most Korean Protestant denominations use the 개역개정 (1998) in worship. It is under copyright and we have no licence for it, while the 개역한글 has been in the public domain since 2012, so Korean has this one Bible for now. The two are close: in our tests, a passage read aloud from the 개역개정 still brings up the card, and Korean readers then see the 개역한글 wording, named on the card.

A paraphrase, or a reading the pastor never names, gets no card: it is translated by AI in 개역개정 terms and labelled AI. How Scripture lock works.

The caption is a line from the sample service in our demo; on a phone, every translated caption is labelled AI 번역. The verse is the 개역한글 text exactly as Scripture lock shows it; the 개역개정 words it a little differently (그를 for 저를, 멸망하지 for 멸망치).

• The 개역개정 and other licensed Korean Bibles aren’t shown; verse cards in Korean come from the 개역한글 only.
• Readings the pastor doesn’t name are translated and labelled AI.
• The dashboard your team uses is in English; the listener page and the captions are in Korean.
• The AI voice and the big screen aren’t part of the Free plan, which captions 1 language plus your main language.