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Using the Multilingual Interface

How language switching works, how your choice is remembered, and what changes β€” and deliberately does not change β€” between locales.

The entire public experience is available in English, Korean and Japanese. Switching is instant, your choice is remembered, and every page keeps the same structure across languages β€” only the words change. This guide covers the details worth knowing.

Switching languages

Use the globe selector in the header, or the language buttons in the footer. English pages live at plain URLs (for example /golden-ball), while Korean and Japanese pages carry a locale prefix (/ko/golden-ball, /ja/golden-ball). Sharing a link therefore shares the language you were reading in.

How your choice is remembered

When you pick Korean or Japanese, the site stores that choice and brings you back to the matching pages on your next visit to an unprefixed URL. A prefixed URL always wins: opening a /ja link shows Japanese regardless of any stored preference. The site never guesses from your browser settings β€” language is always an explicit choice.

What changes between locales

  • All interface text, guides, notices and FAQ content.
  • Localized labels for judgments, statuses and badges.
  • Metadata, so shared links preview in the right language.

What deliberately stays the same

  • Numbers, round IDs and draw times β€” results are identical facts in every language, with times always in UTC.
  • Game names β€” brand names such as Golden Ball stay Latin across locales.
  • Layout and structure β€” sections appear in the same order, so switching never disorients.
Honesty labels are localized with equal force: the Live badge, every verification label and every status wording have exact Korean and Japanese counterparts, checked by the same automated sweep as the English originals.