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There's a nasty feature in Microsoft Word as it applies to Korean; I have no idea why it's there. My best guess is that it's only supposed to be used with Japanese and Chinese but that Microsoft mistakenly included it for Korean, too. I'm not really sure, though. Perhaps Microsoft...
If you’re translating English business cards into Korean, work with a professional who understands the intricacies of the task and asks enough questions to be able to translate job titles correctly. For example, here are many (but not all) of the possibilities for translating “director” and its variants: 이사 전무...
If you're expecting identical English text to be always translated the same way into Korean, you're in for a big surprise. There can be meaning-related factors involved too, but this tip explains how structural context influences the verb endings used in written Korean. This means that occasionally, the same English source sentence...
The following point may seem obvious: Korean letters don't appear the same in each font. For some reason though, this confuses clients from time to time. Here's the Korean letter chi'ut written in five different fonts: Notice how the line/dot at the top in #3, #4 and #5 is disconnected...
A client recently sent me a translation request for a technical user's manual where we had already worked on another manual for the same manufacturer. The client put the translation memory and termbase from our first delivery through a machine translation solution to translate the second manual. He then asked...
In a previous tip, we covered the fact that some Korean number units don't jive with English. The following tip points out that the way numbers are written also differs between the two languages. In English, we generally spell out numbers through 100 and then use numerals after that. Here are...
If you use the Google Chrome browser, you're sure to have come across this message at the top of the browser window: Here's what Korean users have been seeing here: The indicated Korean says, "Not Completed"…. Hmm… So Google asks if you want your password saved and Korean users can...
How do you create a good translation of responses to surveys and questionnaires? With smooth target-language sentences and phrases that convey the rough meanings of the source? Or with translations that accurately and consistently represent the way the original writers expressed themselves, including as many nuances as possible between terms...
I'm seeing a steady increase in the number of software and online translation projects we handle for the English to Korean language pair. At the same time, I've noticed that client and translator expectations about budgets, processes and client-vendor involvement are not always in sync with the difficulties these projects...
We've just reached yet another milestone! That’s right… I've posted three sets of Korean translation tips (eight each), and so I’d like to celebrate by summarizing the latest batch for you here: You Can’t Write Names of People in Red in Korean Localize Place Names for Koreans Unless You Want...
