When Mr. Kim who work for Korean translation London, discusses what daily life is like in North Korea, it is important to first note that there are three North Koreas: the high officialdom, the Pyongyang elite, and everyone else. The first North Korea revolves around the sheltered, opulent life of high officials of the regime. These lucky few live in palatial residences, watch South Korean broadcasts and CNN on their big- screen LCD TVs, and travel to Japan and China frequently on shopping and tourist jaunts. While numbering only a few hundred people, these aristocrats live a very different life from their compatriots. They consist [...]

Before You Hire a Korean Translation Company There are three important aspects to consider when you hire Korean translation services. Translator Competence Korean translators’ quality and performance is essential to accurate Korean translation, which is a key to a successful project. In case of Korean to English translation, a native English translator who is fluent in Korea is better. In case of English to Korean translation, a native Korean is recommended. All Korean translators in Segem Consulting are bilingual translators. Moreover, they have a deep understanding of both Western and Korean culture. Because of this we are confident that we provide not only accurate translations [...]

Korean translation is many things. It is insufficient, excessive, contingent, temporally bound, iterative, different. It is, as many people in the post- structuralistic tradition have acknowledged, impossible, and at the same time necessary. It is not – can never be – perfect, instant or redundant. And yet, as I will argue here, all three of these  qualifiers are associated with the way in which document ‘dreams’ translation. Let me begin with two apparently throwaway remarks. The first remark is one made by Kim and Lee, famous Korean translation scholars, in relation to the difficulty of translating Korean language, which are notoriously often the objects of [...]

Korean Translation of Comments – Introduction Regarding Korean translation, I will investigate to what extent linguistic simplification affects the domain of politeness phenomena in subtitles, focusing on the Korean translation of compliments, which are culturally-constrained speech acts. The process of simplification at work in subtitles supposedly concerns the elements that can be recovered through non-linguistic communicative channels or those that are less directly connected with the performance of the referential function and are instead linked to the area of expressivity, for example, terms of address, discourse markers, politeness formulae, reformulations and the like. Compliments are speech acts that are primarily aimed at maintaining, enhancing or supporting [...]

Research on the linguistic aspects of verbal translation has mainly focussed on the Korean translation of general aspects such as synchronisation, social and geographic variation and transfer errors. Korean researchers have also investigated morphosyntactic and lexical phenomena of the spoken Korean language in Korean translated or interpreted films, although systematic quantitative analyses are rarely available. Little is thus known about the degree to which the spoken Korean language filters into translated Korean film scripts, with some studies suggesting in fact that dubbed languages are placed closer to a ‘neutral’, uniform (formal) standard as they fail to portrait important areas of sociolinguistic variation. In a different [...]

This article discusses the return on investment (ROI) of localisation (translation) from Korean to English and from English to Korean, which we define as the process of adapting and including translation of software, products, documentation, or Web sites to Korean or English speaking market needs. The efforts of localisation into Korean cost a small fraction of the international revenue they generate. Nonetheless, most firms in the United States underfund their localisation budgets. In this article we recount focused research into the localisation practices of 50 U.S. companies. We introduce a step-by-step process for measuring and ensuring the ROI of Korean localisation projects, considering a wide [...]

Humour, Korean translation and video translation are three fields of Korean translation study which have favoured different peaks of academic interest and epistemological development throughout the times. Both Humour Studies and Video Translation Studies are flourishing and challenging research interests within the broader scope of translation. Given that, Korean translation carried out in the visual field accounts for an increasingly large proportion of translation activity, and because of the hybrid and multidisciplinary nature of this field of research, one could almost speak of the existence of a new discipline within Translation Studies: Visual Translation Studies. The primary purpose of this article is to contribute to [...]

A Korean Translator in Birmingham Summarises the Legislature of Korea We have an article by our Korean translator in Birmingham, Miss Lee explaining the legislature of Korea. The most content of the article are initially written for her research on Korean politics, and based on facts only. When it comes to Korean translation or Korean translators, who knows better than us? We are Korean specialists! The Legislature of Korea Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly, a unicameral legislature. The Assembly is composed of 273 members elected by popular vote for a four-year term. Assembly members elected by popular vote comprise five-sixths of membership [...]

A Korean Translator in Sheffield Explains Earliest Years of Korea Our Korean translation Sheffield branch is very proud of our Korean translator, Mrs. Koh who did an excellent job in translating a massive 1000-page instruction manual this year. She describes how it was like in Korea about 2000 years ago.     The beginning of Korea dates back to 2333 B.C., when Dangun, the legendary son of the Heavenly God and a woman from a bear-totem tribe, established the first kingdom. Historians refer to this earliest era of Korean history as the Gojoseon (Ancient Joseon) period.  Ancient Korea was characterised by clan communities that combined [...]

Our Korean translator in Korean translation Glasgow branch, Mr. Park wrote us an article about Korea’s plant and animals. The Korean Peninsula has been settled, farmed, and moved across for thousands of years. Even though the landscape is only about one-fifth arable (land that can be farmed), the hallmarks of active settlement are clearly apparent in almost all prospects. The inventory of flora and fauna has been widely modified by the peninsula’s corridor role in the ever-shifting interaction between the Asian continent and the Japanese archipelago (chain of islands). According Mr. Park, our professional Korean translator, there used to be a fauna of bears, lynx, [...]