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I’ll occasionally get a message like this from a Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: http://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/]client who wants me to change a singular Korean noun to a plural form: “Steven, the client just made the following change in the English. Can you update it in the Korean? Old version: “We’ll be sending...

I had a prospective translator take my Korean translation test this week (which can be found at translate-korean.com). It wasn't actually a bad job, but there were a few mistakes that were exceptionally careless. The problem with issues like this in our business is that since our clients generally aren't...

I was recently contacted by someone wanting to break into the Korean translation business. Here are the highlights of our email discussion, which include some insights about the freelance translation market at the moment and information about what to expect. (For information on the translation test: www.translate-korean.com) Dear Steven, I'm interested...

On a recent English > Korean project for an agency client, I gave the project manager the choice of translation-only by one professional translator or, for a bit more, translation and proofreading by separate linguists. Some clients work on a budget that doesn't allow the additional proofreading step at all,...

Over the last several months, I've posted seven translation tips here, each with a Best Practices Tip, to help readers and translation clients handle their Korean-language projects better. In case you missed any of them, here they are again. (BTW, most of these will take you less than 30 seconds...

In the practice of translating Korean to English [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/korean-to-english-translation/] , it is often necessary to leave some meaning out. That’s right; I can’t translate everything,. In this case, I’m referring to Korean respect in translation. When translating business correspondence, I have to leave out all the parts...

Today I want to help you get ready for the holidays with a Korean holiday greeting that communicates naturally… You know how those Chinese fortune cookie messages can sound a bit quaint translated into English? Don’t you think a Korean fortune cookie (if such existed) translated into English might sound...

I’ve been developing my skills in online marketing lately, which recently included earning a Google Adwords Individual Qualification [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/korean-translator/] . This effort brought to my attention an aspect of Korean character limitations that I hadn’t considered carefully before. Since Korean translation [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://uz9.25e.myftpupload.com/] is my gig...

Let’s suppose you work at an elite prep school in the US with some Koreans in the student body. When the parents of one of the kids, Young-Hee, filled out the application form for their child, they entered their own names as Dong-Hyuk Kim and Eun-Hee Huh. And now, let’s...