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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...
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,...
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...
I talked about acronyms awhile ago in connection with plurals and explained that the “s” should be removed from the end of an English acronym when translated to Korean. The reason for this is that plurals in Korean aren’t quite the same as they are for us in English. It’s...
In my last tip, I told you that sometimes you have to change the font color when translating Korean in order to avoid offending a Korean readership. This time, I’m here to tell you that you might also need to modify the names of places during the Korean localization process....
** Visit the related discussion on Korea Business Central. Learning Korean is tough; there are no two ways about it. When I first came to Korea, I planned to conquer Korean in two years and then do the same with Chinese and Japanese after that. I figured that would make...
Sometimes we’re asked to handle a translation into Korean of text that’s not in black font. And every once in awhile, that color is red. And once in a blue moon, the text includes the names of individuals written in red font… Well, you’d better not leave those names in red in your...
