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Translation is a funny business… I've been working in this field now for about fifteen years, and I enjoy translating from Korean to English. However, I avoid, at almost all cost, proofreading, editing and performing other quality-assurance tasks of Korean to English translations done by others. (BTW, this does not...
It was frigid on day 2 and we wore (all at once!) all of the clothes we'd taken for the two days. That still left frozen toes and fingers, but fortunately they didn't fall off due to frostbite. The skies were clear and the views across the sea unforgettable. (Visit...
Visiting during the winter means we didn't have to share the beach area with anybody. The disadvantage was that most of the restaurants and places to stay for the night were closed. We managed to find one homestay (민박) taking guests and just had dinner at the CU convenience store...
Somehow, I don't think we anticipated all the hills… It's a small island, but it was a lot more fun going down the hills than up. (Visit in Google Maps.)
I've been wanting to visit the islands off the coast of Ansan for awhile, and with the free bike rentals that the city offers, and the fact that the kids will go with me on a bike trip, though they won't for a long walk at Chiri mountain, we headed...
Do you remember the video I showed you last time? If you didn’t see it, please watch it here in order to be ready for this week’s tip. Unbelievably, it seems that some folks still aren’t convinced that it’s bad practice to break English sentences up and translate phrase by...
Tip #1: A Korean-Language Google Translation Error and Best Practices for Handling Your Korean Projects Tip #2: Is the Standard Korean Greeting a Question or Not? Tip #3 : A Quirk of Punctuation Usage in Korean Tip #4: This Week’s Episode of “Steven’s Believe It or Not!” Tip #5: Greetings...
By now (if you've been reading my past tips here, here and here!), you should know that Korean punctuation doesn’t always match English punctuation. Another aspect of Korean writing that doesn’t jive with English is CAPITALIZATION. In fact, Korean has no concept of capitalization whatsoever. It’s no more possible to capitalize a Korean...
I frequently translate Korean emails and other documents to be used in litigation. These generally come to me during the discovery phase before trial while the attorneys for the non-Korean side are preparing their case using materials obtained from the opposing Korean party. In these situations, the attorneys are interested...
Over the last couple years, I’ve watched three Korean TV series set mainly in the 1970s. Light and Shadows (빛과 그림자 [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%9B%EA%B3%BC_%EA%B7%B8%EB%A6%BC%EC%9E%90_(MBC_%EB%93%9C%EB%9D%BC%EB%A7%88)], MBC) (64 episodes at 70 minutes each) Samsaengi (삼생이, KBS) (120 episodes at 35 minutes each) Eun-Hee (은희 [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED:https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%80%ED%9D%AC], KBS) (140 episodes at 35...
