Korean Lit at Oxford

@UniofOxford is delighted to host the 1st UK Korean Poetry Translation Workshop, organised by Prof Jiyoung Shin and Prof Jieun Kiaer. Tweets by @matthotkd.

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The winners of the 1st Oxford Korean Poetry Translation Prize are:

- Mattho Mandersloot for ZEBRA LINES by Choi Jeongrye.
- Stacey Lui for AMAZING GRACE by Kim Seung-hee.

Many congratulations!

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@skaii9 Best of luck!

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Great suggestion! https://t.co/Fin6ujhRR4

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With that, the workshop draws to a close. Thanks go out to @TORCHOxford and @HertfordCollege for hosting and we hope that the conversation about Korean translation may continue on here. Until next year!

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“Translating p’ansori is about weighing up the value of understanding against the value hearing art in its true form.” - Dr Anna Yates

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“Is there anything we can gain from translating p’ansori? It can reveal a lot about innate rhythms and flow of Korean as opposed to other languages.” - Dr Anna Yates

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Problems with surtitling a p’ansori performance:

1. Audience starts laughing before the joke is delivered.
2. Actors cannot respond to the audience and deviate from the set story.
3. Audience has to divide their attention.

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The last talk of the day, and thereby of the workshop, is from Dr Anna Yates: ‘Translating P’ansori: where music and language meet’.

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The case of kinship terms in Princess Bari: ‘압둘 할아버지 (grandfather Abdul)’ shows intimacy, not necessarily that he’s anyone’s grandfather. What to do?

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@KiaerJieun: “Translating swearing words is difficult, because you don’t want to do it. You feel slightly responsible."

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.@KiaerJieun: “It takes a split second for a Korean to pick up on anaphoric relationships when coming across ‘큰 오빠, 작은 언니 etc.’."

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@JiyoungShin5 Thanks for this!

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After the morning translation session, Prof @KiaerJieun delivers a talk on translating Korean kinship terms.

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Day 2 of the workshop brings our translators together at @HertfordCollege Graduate Center, by the beautiful Folly Bridge. #oxford

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“What is at stake with an artwork is whether it is compelling in its own terms. What is at stake with a translation is a certain proximity to the original.” - Prof Ian Kiaer

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"The tension between the impossibility of translation versus the desire to translate, is where creativity takes place.” - Prof Ian Kiaer

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"There is a massive gap between an information brochure and the experience of an artwork: the gap between what the work is doing and what the text is doing.” - Prof Ian Kiaer

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"Joson Dynasty paintings are unlike most western art. The latter is about stacking layer on layer, imposing your will onto an image. The former is about allowing the ink to do its work, allowing the image to emerge by itself.” - Prof Ian Kiaer

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“There is a parallel between literature and visual art, in that there is a relationship between text and image and 'not knowing'. To what is said and what is left unsaid.” - Prof Ian Kiaer.

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To round off today’s programme, Prof Ian Kiaer will give a talk about ‘Translating Aesthetic Values’. ~ 오늘 일정의 마무리로 Ian Kiaer 교수께서 미적 가치의 해석이라는 주제로 강연을 해 주시겠습니다.