Government Translation in South Korea

Jinsil Choi is Assistant Professor at Tabula Rasa College, Keimyung University, South Korea. Her main academic interests include corpus-based translation studies, premodern Korea in translation, and audiovisual translation. She has published papers in international journals (Translation and Interpreting Studies, Translation Studies, Interventions, the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies) and edited volumes.

"This book provides unprecedented insights into the production and selection for translation of texts issued by South Korean government institutions, adding important detail to our understanding of institutional translation. In so doing, it also illustrates the advantages of the corpus based methodology applied in terms both of process and product analysis in translation studies."–Kirsten Malmkjær, Professor Emeritus of Translation Studies, the University of Leicester, UK"This book makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of institutional translation, exploring a rare topic of government translation and analyzing hitherto neglected genres, such as web-magazines, press briefings or speeches. This impressive and inspiring study offers a comprehensive, systematic and critical account of the translation process and products, supported by a wealth of parallel corpus data."–Łucja Biel, University of Warsaw, Poland

• 1. Introduction 2. Institutional Translation and Corpus-based Translation Studies 3. Two Korean-English Parallel Corpora: The Korean Institutional Corpus and The Press Briefing Corpus 2012 4. Translation of a Web-Magazine of the National Museum of Contemporary Art 5. Translation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade 6. Translation in the President Office 7. Translation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Park Geun-hye’s administration in 2013