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 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 06 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) released the ‘Touch It Paper,’ a graphic guidebook that enables simple communication just by pointing to certain pictograms in emergency situations abroad. This new guide will help Korean tourists abroad communicate with local foreigners in distress. [...]