Converlay Now Speaks Korean: Full Localization for Korea’s Shopify Merchants

Korea is one of the fastest-growing Shopify markets in Asia, and yet most third-party apps still ship as English-only tools with the rest of the world bolted on later, if at all. Converlay just closed that gap. As of v2.26.0, Converlay is fully available in Korean — not a partial translation of a few menu labels, but a complete localization of the dashboard, the number and date formats, and even the PDF reports merchants send to their team or agency.

Why This Matters More Than It Sounds

A Shopify merchant running their store in Korean shouldn't have to context-switch into English every time they open an analytics app. That friction adds up: a founder scanning a revenue chart, a support agent explaining a destination setup to a Korean-speaking merchant, an agency preparing a monthly report for a client in Seoul — all of it is slower and more error-prone in a second language. Full localization isn't a cosmetic feature. It's the difference between a tool a Korean-language team actually trusts and one they route around.

It also signals something about how seriously an app treats its non-English merchant base. Converlay already supports 26 destinations for forwarding conversion data — Meta, GA4, TikTok, Pinterest, Klaviyo, and more — but a merchant can't act confidently on data they have to squint at through a language barrier first.

What Shipped in v2.26.0

Korean joins English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, and Italian as Converlay's 8th fully supported language. The release covers three distinct pieces of work, each of which is easy to get wrong if done halfway:

• A complete translation catalog — 1,829 keys covering every screen, button, tooltip, and email template in the app, verified for placeholder parity so that dynamic values (shop names, dollar amounts, dates) still interpolate correctly inside translated sentences.
• Native Korean formatting — numbers, dates, and currency now render using ko-KR conventions throughout the dashboard, so a revenue figure or a report date looks the way a Korean-speaking merchant expects it to, not like an English string with the words swapped out.
• Korean-language admin chrome — the Shopify Polaris components that wrap the entire embedded app (navigation, banners, buttons) are now sourced in Korean, so there's no jarring mix of an English admin shell around Korean content.

The PDF Problem Most Apps Get Wrong

Here's a detail that's easy to overlook until it breaks in front of a merchant: rendering Korean text in a generated PDF is not the same problem as rendering it in a browser. Most PDF export libraries embed a Latin font by default, and when they hit a Hangul character they can't render, the result is a row of empty boxes where a merchant's report data should be — or, in less obvious failures, a font substitution that looks fine on one operating system and breaks on another.

Converlay's PDF reports now embed Noto Sans KR specifically for Korean-locale exports. reportFontFamily, the function that decides which font a PDF export should use, resolves CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) locales through an explicit map instead of the old binary check that only recognized Japanese. That matters because Korean and Japanese text have different line-wrapping needs than English: the per-character hyphenation logic that keeps long English words from overflowing a PDF column now applies identically to both languages, so long runs of Hangul or Kanji wrap cleanly at character boundaries instead of getting split by inserted hyphens that don't belong in either script.

It's a small technical detail with an outsized effect on trust: a merchant who downloads a monthly performance report and finds it fully legible in their own language, with numbers and dates formatted the way they expect, is a merchant who keeps using the report.

No Setup Required

Korean is available automatically — there's nothing to enable and no separate plan requirement. Merchants whose Shopify admin is set to Korean will see the Converlay dashboard, onboarding flow, lifecycle emails, and exported PDF reports in Korean by default. Everyone else can switch languages from the dashboard at any time.

Part of a Broader Global Push

Korean locale support lands alongside Converlay's growing destination list — now 26 platforms for server-side conversion tracking, from GA4 and Meta Conversions API to newer additions like Pinterest's OAuth-based connection flow. As Shopify's merchant base keeps expanding outside English-speaking markets, treating localization as a first-class feature — not an afterthought bolted onto an English-first product — is part of making accurate, trustworthy tracking data accessible to every merchant, in the language they actually run their business in.

Converlay connects your Shopify store to 26 destinations via server-side event forwarding that bypasses ad blockers, iOS restrictions, and cookie expiry — now fully available in Korean, alongside English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, and Italian.

Install Converlay from the Shopify App Store and set your language from the dashboard to get started.