Vol. 2May 2026

About Pagera

Pagera is a free digital library of 24,450 public-domain world classics, readable in your native language. 390 Korean translations are currently available alongside the originals.

Mission

World literature, in your language, free for everyone. Public-domain classics are humanity's shared inheritance. Pagera uses AI translation — reviewed by humans — to revive works that language barriers had kept from readers.

What Pagera is

Pagera is two things: a modern library that curates public-domain texts from Project Gutenberg and Aozora Bunko, and a multilingual translation platform where AI translates on reader request with human-reviewed quality gates. Both originals and translations are free forever, funded by advertising.

How it works

A reader requests a translation. Duplicate requests accumulate and enter the queue ranked by (popularity × waiting time × demand). An AI produces a first draft, then a 5-axis review loop iterates until it scores 98/100 or higher. If it falls short, a targeted-fixer rewrites the weak spots — up to 5 iterations.

Translation quality standard

Every Korean translation on Pagera must pass a double-blind review by two independent LLM reviewers before publication. Publication thresholds:

  • Adequacy (meaning preserved) ≥ 9.5 / 10
  • Fluency (natural target-language prose) ≥ 9.5 / 10
  • Style (era and tone match) ≥ 9.5 / 10
  • Humanness (AI-tone removed) ≥ 9.5 / 10
  • Polish (formatting, spelling, quotes) ≥ 9.5 / 10
  • Overall ≥ 98 / 100

Numbers as of April 2026

Public-domain books
24,450
Korean translations completed
390
Languages supported
6 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese)

Data sources

Project Gutenberg — 76,000+ English public-domain books (gutenberg.org)

Aozora Bunko (青空文庫) — 17,700+ Japanese public-domain books (aozora.gr.jp)

Founder

Song Manseok — founder of PubStation Inc. Combines publishing technology with AI translation to make 'world literature, in your native language, free' a reality.

Operator

PubStation Inc. (주식회사 펍스테이션)

CEO: Song Manseok (송만석)

Cheonan, Republic of Korea

Business registration 830-86-02873 · Mail-order permit 2024-Seoul Mapo-0120

Contact: pubstation@pubstation.co.kr · 070-4006-0224