SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In response to the mistranslation of kimchi as Chinese “pao cai,” the South Korean government has announced the official Chinese word for kimchi as “shinchi.” The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that new guidelines for the translation of Korean will take effect on Thursday. In the new [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Tuesday that foreigners can shop for goods at local convenience stores through the company’s mobile translation application Papago. Under the agreement with GS Retail Co., a major convenience chain operator, Naver will update its application this month with English, Japanese, and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Artificial intelligence (AI) language software by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., scored higher than its rival AI machines in a translation battle between humans and machines held in South Korea earlier this week, industry officials said Wednesday. On Tuesday, a group of four professional translators competed against three AI-powered [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A man versus AI match in language translation will take place in Seoul on February 21, hosted by the International Interpretation & Translation Association, Sejong University, and Sejong Cyber University. The contest will run for 50 minutes, and its participants include a professional human translator, Systran translator, Google translator, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands are applying to be voluntary workers at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, with fewer than 500 days left before the opening of the winter games, the first of their kind to be hosted in Korea. With the recruitment deadline imminent (September 30), the committee announced that translation work has [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hosting a global sporting event like the Olympics is a lucrative opportunity to attract thousands of overseas tourists, boosting the local economy, and promoting products and culture that might have otherwise been left unnoticed. However, language barriers can often be frustrating for tourists travelling to a foreign country, which [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Administrative Court in Yangjae-dong, Seoul opened on July 19 a legal support center for interpretation and translation services due to an increasing number of cases related to foreign refugees. The number of refugee cases more than doubled from 400 cases in 2014 to 1,000 cases last year, and is [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, Korea’s leading web portal, decided to discontinue its latest translation service, Chamyeo-Bonyeok Q (‘Participate, Translate Q’), after facing criticism that the new platform was very similar to an existing translation service offered by a start-up company, Flitto. Chamyeo-Bonyeok Q was launched less than a month ago (June 17) with [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Translating Korean literature, while challenging, has opened up a whole new, joyful world, said foreign translators during a panel discussion in Seoul Monday. In the closed-session organized by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, translators from England, Germany, India, France, Mexico, and Uzbekistan, shared their experiences of and thoughts [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Women who migrated to Korea to marry Korean men are using their language skills to cultivate meaningful careers, by establishing cooperative associations and social ventures that provide translation services. According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, there are approximately 850,000 foreign brides in Korea, representing 45 percent of [...]