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Myunghee and I arrived at Nojeok Hill around 6am this morning and started our walk along the perimeter trail in the dark. About a hundred yards down, we came across Candidate #7, Kim Seok-Gyoon, handing out campaign cards under a park lamp. As luck would have it, I had brought...
Park Jung-Hee had been in power in Korea a little over two years at the time of JFK's assassination in 1963. Sixteen years later on this day, October 26, 1979, Park was also shot dead while still president. Today, not unlike the way Americans remember Kennedy, many Koreans look back...
1. In translating emails, there was footer content which had nothing to do with the case. But we can’t just skip it as if it doesn’t exist. The translation team simply cut-and-pasted the graphic from the PDF with a comment that the text was regarding looking for missing children. This...
This is Hasan, a friend of ours from Bangladesh who is living in Korea. We took this photo in our neighborhood near the foot of Nojeok Hill. Myunghee met his sister in Texas while studying English together several years ago but the sister’s US visa ran out and she returned...
A translation client of mine was also interested in consulting services for expanding their business presence in Korea. I referred them to associates of mine at Korea Business Central. We met together at a hotel coffee shop in Gangnam, Seoul to discuss the opportunities.
Client question about his Japanese business card: Is it normal for the address on the Japanese side to be translated? Obviously if this address was used in Kanji the USPS would have some difficulty in delivering it. My answer: You are right that the address translated on the Japanese...
A client sent me this recently: We are trying to standardize our pricing and base everything on source words. I understand for into English documents, you usually charge based on the target English word count or based on a flat rate that is agreed upon in advance. Would you...
Take a close look at the following photo of Kim Jong-Il embracing the Chinese premier in Pyeongyang this week. Considering that the border with North Korea is just a short drive from Seoul (indeed, I used to have a view of the mountains of North Korea from my desk...
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The Korean Chuseok holiday took place this weekend to celebrate the harvest full moon. It is one of the two major Korean holidays of the year (the other being the Lunar New Year). I took this photo of the full moon early in the morning today from Nojeok Hill facing...
