SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Following South Korean novelist Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win, the publishing house associated with her English translator has hailed the achievement as “a huge win for translated fiction.” Tilted Axis Press, co-founded by Deborah Smith, one of Han Kang’s translators, took to social media to express its jubilation on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – GS E&C, a leading South Korean construction firm, announced on September 24 the development of an artificial intelligence-powered translation program called Xi Voice to facilitate communication with foreign workers at construction sites. The innovative tool, designed to address the challenges of a multilingual workforce, can convert spoken Korean into text [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has developed an artificial intelligence-based translation program with enhanced speed and accuracy, a propaganda outlet reported Sunday. DPRK Today, a propaganda website, carried a report introducing the research result of the AI institute of Kim Il-sung University on the creation and introduction of Ryongma, an AI technology-based [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho, the director of “Parasite,” has said foreigners may find it difficult to fully understand the film because of its details and nuances that are specific to Koreans. But the film provoked laughter from the audience all the way through its running time when it premiered at this [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — New allegations have surfaced claiming a government official who acted as a translator for immigration officials and various refugee applicants had, on numerous occasions, made up information that factored in to the government’s decision to refuse refugee status. NANCEN, an NGO that assists refugees, held a press conference in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, the corporation behind the eponymous messaging service Kakao Talk, has created a translation service that can handle both informal and formal Korean input, the first of its kind developed in South Korea. Formal or polite Korean is referred to as “jondetmal” or “nopimmal” and is employed when addressing [...]
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 [...]