Wook-Dong Kim
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wook-Dong Kim is involved.
Articles
2017 Lost in translation: (Mis)translation of foreign film titles in Korea Babel 63:5, pp. 729–745 | Article
This paper explores how translation of foreign film titles has been carried out in South Korea since foreign films first arrived in Korea following its emancipation from Japanese colonial rule. With reference to audiovisual translation in general and film or screen translation in particular,… read more
2015 Two Korean translations of the Xiaoxue: Free translation or literal translation? Babel 61:4, pp. 589–603 | Article
Broadly historical in its approach, this article explores how the Xiaoxue (Lesser or Elementary Learning), or Sohak in Korean, a primary textbook for Confucianism in China, was translated into Korean at two different times with a span of seventy years between the versions in the sixteenth century.… read more