[Eye on English]The art of translating Korean texts into English
May 14, 2014
Freelance translator Yi Jin spent some 18 years translating English literature into Korean, but she is now learning to do it the other way around.“Most English novels that are translated into Korean get that opportunity because they are good,” Yi told The Korea Herald. “So it’s been very rewarding and fun to introduce them to the Korean reading public. But after many years of doing that, I thought, ‘How come Korean novels don’t get to be translated into English?’ Whenever I read good Korean nove