Title: Translation of Cultureme (Translation)

Speaker: Jin Zhenwo

Time: December 2, 2022  9:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m.

Tencent Meeting No: 801-207-935

Hosted by: The School of Foreign Studies of Jilin University

Speaker Bio: Jin Zhenwo is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Graduate School of Advanced Translation and Interpretation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, a senior interpreter, a senior foreign expert of China’s “Thousand Talents Plan”, an interpretation textbook review expert for CATTI of CIPG, and a member of the Korean government’s selection and evaluation committee for interpreters and translators. She once provided simultaneous interpretation services for Chinese and Korean leaders such as Wen Jiabao, Lee Myung-bak, Park Geun-hye and Yoon Seok-yeol. She has also provided consecutive interpretation services for various summit forums and international conferences, as well as interpretation services for South Korean government agencies and some well-known enterprises.

Introduction to the Lecture: Nowadays translation has gone beyond the stage of word-to-word and sentence-to-sentence translation. A good translation should consider factors such as language, national culture and lifestyle. Direct translation without considering cultural differences will make the communication between the two sides get into difficulties, that is, the purpose of successful communication cannot be achieved. Based on their own experiences and various studies, scholars of pragmatic translation have suggested that today’s translators should delve into the concreteness of the interaction between translation and culture. Therefore, this lecture will focus on how to deal with the cultural differences in Chinese and Korean translation.