Someone (Amazon?) screws the pooch on the “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature”
Well.. this is rather horrible. The phrase “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature” is rendered as: At least they got the first collection right:
Interesting “Translation Glitch” In JoongAng Ilbo of Shin Kyung-sook (courtesy of the Gypsy Scholar)
An interesting article over at Gypsy Scholar. As KTLIT has, The Scholar has been following the success of Please Look After Mom. In the course of this he came across a very interesting mistranslation of spoken words. The Scholar notes that in the course of an interview Shin is reported to have said: While I…
More on Horribility
I took Hong Gildong (the “Korean Classical Literature Institute” version) in to work to show it around the Translation Department, who all had a good hoot. Over a delicious 갈바당 lunch the chair asked why I bought it, and I replied the cover was nice. She took a look at the cover and said, “yeah,…
Sometimes the Translation is Reaaaaally Bad!
As part of my ongoing project to review all of the KLTI/Jimoondang short novels, I have begun to read Hong Gildong by Seo Hajin. This is based on a Korean folk-tale of the same name. Thus I was ecstatic to find a translation of this work at the “Foreign Bookstore” (Right across from exit 1…