How Specialized Knowledge is Translated and Transmitted by Media: A Case Study of South Korea’s Business Biweekly DBR (Jungmin HONG)ĩ. Paratextual Framing, Retranslation, and Discourses of Self-Help: An Analysis of Korean Translations of Self-Help from 1918 to 2017 (Ji-Hae KANG)Ĩ. Building Democratic South Korea: America, the Cold War, and Wolgan Amerika (Ye Jin KIM)ħ. Translating Korea: Re-vising Poetics, Re-writing Gender during the Japanese Colonial Period and in North Korea (Theresa HYUN)Ħ. How Concepts of Social Darwinism were Translated in East Asia: Focusing on the Works of Katō Hiroyuki, Yan Fu, and Yu Kil-Chun (Han-Nae YU)ĥ. Christian Knowledge and Beliefs as a Conduit for Buddhism in the Translation of Palsangnok (Jinsil CHOI)Ĥ. Interpreter and Translator Training in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea (Jung-hwa YU)ģ. Official Interpreters of the Joseon Period (Okkyoung BAEK)Ģ. Introduction (Judy WAKABAYASHI and Ji-Hae KANG)ġ. It covers a range of historical and contemporary aspects, genres, and venues that extend beyond the common yet restrictive focus on literary translation and includes discussions of translator training and academic studies of translation and interpreting in Korea.

After exploring aspects of historical interactions, the volume addresses how the role and practice of translation and interpreting have recently evolved as a result of the development of digital technology, an increase in the number of immigrants, and changes in political and cultural dynamics in the region. These encounters have been shaped by political, social, and cultural factors, including the shared use of the Chinese writing system in East Asia for many centuries, attitudes toward other Asians and Westerners, and perceptions of Korean identity in relation to these Others. The focus of this volume is on how the people of the Korean Peninsula-historically an important part of the Sinocentric world in East Asia and today a vital economic and strategic site-have negotiated oral and written interactions with their Asian neighbors and Europeans in the past and present through the mediation of translators and interpreters.

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