Names translated to Chinse in a lot of Kdrama English subs?

It's really quite annoying Crazy

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

they're only translated to chinese for those dramas released in chinese. and when people make english subs using those chinese translations, of course they're going to use the chinese translated names. if it's so annoying to you, then go through and change them if they're soft subs. if they're not, then pretty much all you can do is buy the YA version.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Just to clarify this... Since I may be guilty of it myself... Do you mean, for example, if someone's surname is rendered as "Cho" instead of "Jo"? I use "Cho" because "Jo" looks like a given name to many people instead of a surname. Is that considered wrong?

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Not at all, Jo has at least some semblance to Cho. I was referring to the Zhao, Cai, Ming, Fongs, etc. which are loosely translated and worse, do not sound at all Korean.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Oh my... Never saw anything that bad... Okay, my guilty consciense is cleansed.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Heyhe, glad it's the conscience and not the soul Unsure

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

take a look at the community fansub list. most of these subs come from kdramas that have first been subbed into chinese and then had english subs made from those chinese subs. that's why we call them engrish...because they're not really correct english. remember that these subs are not made by fansubbers so they don't care as much about accuracy. obviously, the subs released here by fansubbers usually have the korean names. and if you think these are bad, you haven't seen the english subs for love storm that was released here. those are terrible. like babelfish but 100x worse. Smile

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:41 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

agree w/ habukie.

however... many fansubbers also translate from Chinese subs-->English, because not all are native speakers of Korean... and occasionally I've come across incorrect names. They don't necessarily leave the names in Chinese (like you mentioned... Zhao, Ming, Fong, etc.), but mispell or guess the pronunciation of the name in Korean... an example that sticks out in my mind is from IJUKSA (aka "A Love to Kill")... Lee Ki Woo's character's name is Kim Joon Sung (or could also be spelled "Jun-Seong" if going by a romanization system), but the subbers put Kim Joon Soon instead. I assumed they were doing some guesswork with the names.

I didn't bother me, though.. I can understand conversational Korean, but I do notice minor mistakes every now and then. But even so, no complaints from me, because the subbers generally do a fabulous job.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0