SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service for immigrant mothers who are struggling with the language barrier translates Korean newsletters that their children bring from school into the mother’s native tongue for free. The Happiness Foundation, a charity foundation run by South Korean energy and telecom conglomerate SK Group, said Thursday that it [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” This remark by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho at this year’s Golden Globes Awards after winning best foreign language film has resonated in the U.S., where few non-English films have won [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A press conference for ‘Babel 250’, a new South Korean reality TV show airing on tvN, was held at Stanford Hotel in Sangam-dong, Seoul, on July 25. When one of the cast members spoke during the press conference, their speech was first interpreted into Korean then interpreters sitting behind the [...]
SEOUL, Nov.20 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of five children raised in a multicultural family turned out to be unemployed or having difficulties adjusting to Korean society. In most cases, they lacked proper education. Most of the teenagers who followed their parents to Korea missed their chance to get job education while they were waiting [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans will be able to access phone translators for 6 different languages when they need to communicate with locals in foreign countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on July 2 that the current phone translating service for 3 languages, English, Chinese and Japanese, will be expanded to offer [...]