But as a 2005 book on Asian translation traditions had to admit, “Virtually no information is available about translation in North Korea.” 1) Judy Wakabayashi, “Translation in the East Asian Cultural Sphere,” in Eva Hung and Judy Wakabayashi, eds., Asian Translation Traditions (St.
Like any country, North Korea maintains a large pool of translators and interpreters, who help it to not only translate its materials into foreign languages but also import texts from other languages into Korean. Translation in Isolation: The Rare, the Bad, and the Weird While the reader may assume that differences and omissions in official translations are always strategic, they are just as often down to resource and time limitations, and where one North Korean media organization might translate something correctly, elsewhere confusion can be inserted by a slightly unnatural word choice.
By tracing the process by which translations come into being, he highlights the limitations and bottlenecks - some of them serious - that are created by the need to translate into multiple languages on a daily basis with very limited resources and, often, time. In this, the third part of the series, Weiser returns to the question of translation. In the first and second parts of his series on reading (and interpreting) North Korean media, Martin Weiser took a deep dive down the well of the North Korean digital archive, bringing to our attention a wealth of additions, changes, and omissions that shed light on key aspects of North Korean government policy, and which, at times, inform third-country responses to it.
Kim Jong-un inspects the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 991 in November 2014.
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