Monthly Archive: October 2013

Korean Translation Tip: Don’t Spell Korean Proper Nouns Wrong in English

Korean Translation Tip: Don’t Spell Korean Proper Nouns Wrong in English

My last tip about emoticons in Korean was pretty interesting, no? ^o^ ㅋㅋㅋ Another issue that causes confusion sometimes is the correct Romanization of vowels in Korean proper nouns. There’s because certain Korean letters (especially vowels!) can be rendered with more than one English spelling. For example, the Korean 우...