The Korean word counter reports word totals the way Korean writing actually works. In Korean, the meaningful unit for spacing and counting is the eojeol (어절) — the chunk of text between spaces. Because particles and endings cling to the words they modify, splitting on spaces gives a count that matches how Koreans read and edit text, even though each chunk may carry more grammar than a single English word.
How it works
The tool trims the text and splits it on runs of whitespace, then counts the resulting tokens as eojeol. Alongside the word total it counts Hangul syllable blocks in the U+AC00–U+D7A3 range, total characters excluding spaces, and sentences detected by terminal punctuation such as periods, question marks and the Korean full stop. Empty input yields zero across the board, and text without any sentence-ending mark is treated as one sentence so a short phrase is never under-counted.
Notes and example
Consider 저는 한국어를 공부합니다. Split on spaces it is three eojeol: 저는 (I + topic particle), 한국어를 (Korean + object particle) and 공부합니다 (study, polite). That is three words even though it contains two attached particles and a conjugated verb ending — a good illustration of why particles do not count as separate words. The syllable count for the same phrase is higher because each block is tallied individually. Everything runs locally in your browser.