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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...
I few weeks ago, I came across a Korean translation error on my new Google Android smartphone. At first, I thought it was a mistake in the Android interface itself, but in the end, I decided it probably came from the Chinese camera supplier and just got plugged in to...
** Visit the related discussion on Korea Business Central: “How Can I Market My Business Online to Korean Consumers?” — The Internet has opened up possibilities for new business models, and many new online businesses are sprouting up in the field of teaching English as a second language. It’s not hard...
I’ve discussed punctuation a few times before in these tips (including about colons, and periods). I guess you could say I’m finding this area to be fertile ground for writing ideas. The smiley is another interesting little difference between Korean and English. In English, we have a variety of smileys, including: :-),...
It can be exciting to have one's writing translated. I'm sure the folks over at Instagram are pretty happy to know that their mobile interface is localized into umpteen languages… Who knows? They might have even gotten it crowdsource-translated for free… Only problem is that… well, there's a mistranslation. No,...
** Visit the related discussion on Korea Business Central: “Is is possible to apply for a job when a person is out of Korea? Or I should just go to Korea and start applying for jobs while I am there?”[EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://stevenbammel.com/category/archives/kbcforum/topics/korea-business-tip-is-is-possible-to-apply-for-a-job-when-a-perso] — Many factors are involved in the...
I discovered something really strange after writing the first section below, so, to keep the order of my thought process in sequence, I present this article in two parts. Part 1 Some time ago, I was flipping through my wife's phone and came across a translation error in the Google...
I've been finding so many Korean translation errors lately that it seems necessary to prepare a spot to collect them all, both those already discovered and more to come in the future. There’s a Translation Error in the Korean Google Android Interface! There's a Translation Error in the Korean Windows...
*** Visit the related tip on Korea Business Central. I received the following two questions last week, and as these aren’t the first inquiries I’ve gotten on the subject, I figure’d I’d post some thoughts on the topic here. The Questions #1 – “One of our investment professionals will be...
My team and I have handled more than 15,000 discrete translation projects over the years; the following are a few examples of the types of work we handle, many on a very regular basis. Due to confidentiality commitments, I have not included any customer-identifiable information in the lists below. Jobs...
