Sawad Hussain & Archana Madhavan on translating webtoons & Korean literature
The Writing Life
Translating a Corean Into English?
Corean isn't a glutinative language, so you can say whole sentences using just one word. I was conscious of that when i would do my translation and knew the type setter is going to have to let squeeze in all my english into a word bubble. The editors told me in the beginning when i was starting out theyre like, well, you might have some back and forth, or your editor might mail you about something,. But i did not usually get any feedback afterwards. So i assumed either the changes they were making, and i would sort of see this in the word, were minor enough that they didn't feel like they needed to communicate that to me.
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