# Metadata in Korean not displayed correctly
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-in-korean-not-displayed-correctly/50116
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 5, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-in-korean-not-displayed-correctly/50116 "2020-09-05T01:35:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@hasiri](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hasiri)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-in-korean-not-displayed-correctly/50116/1 "2020-09-05T01:35:59Z")
Hi,
I have many albums by Korean artists, and meta data (such as album title, track file names, artist, etc) in Korean from some albums (but not all) are being displayed in a form I cannot understand. It seems this is an encoding issue.
I am attaching an example screenshot. Only the last album on this screenshot displays Korean title correctly. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.I have too many albums to fix, and I definitely do not want fix the issue manually.
For your information, I ripped my CD's in FLAC (with Naim UnitiServe).
Thank you!!
[image|243x500](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/short-url/1Wni60SLM68OMJogF1WgeWh4yj4.jpeg)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-in-korean-not-displayed-correctly/50116/2 "2020-09-05T08:51:31Z")
What do the tag fields look like in MP3tag?
It could well be that your player is the problem.
See e.g. here:
> [@Encoding "foreign" character metadata (FLAC files)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/encoding-foreign-character-metadata-flac-files/42264/):
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> Using Windows 10 and mp3tag for adding metadata to FLAC files. Since my keyboard does not directly support foreign characters, such as those found in Celtic music and other non-USA English music forms, I've been using Character Map to add them. However, it turns out that these characters are not necessarily UTF-8 compliant. This causes problems for us in ways too complicated to explain here. That said, how can (or should) Character Map be used to properly insert UTF-8 compliant characters that…
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-in-korean-not-displayed-correctly/50116/3 "2026-02-09T12:28:48Z")