<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Yes, really, since when are "cutesy....kids" as "nauseating," almost, as the rat images for Lee M.B.? For sure, they've got some "polishers" up there who're up on idiomatic English, as indicated in the passage presented by Scott. Would be interesting to know who they are, whether foreign or Korean, possibly Korean-American.</DIV>
<DIV>Don Kirk<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 5/21/12, Afostercarter@aol.com <I><Afostercarter@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Afostercarter@aol.com <Afostercarter@aol.com><BR>Subject: Re: [KS] Foreign copy-editors and polishers in Pyongyang - and Seoul?<BR>To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR>Date: Monday, May 21, 2012, 6:54 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Jim makes an important point. Foreign linguistic advisers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>may get</FONT><FONT size=4> overridden - and by no means only in Pyongyang.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Our List surely includes some who </FONT><FONT size=4>have similarly proof-read</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>and polished in the other Korea, or are doing so right now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I'd be interested to hear their views and experience.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>This issue is almost as hardy a perennial as romanization.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>But time and again one still runs across South Korean</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>websites, including those of large companies and official </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>bodies, </FONT><FONT size=4>where the English just ain't right; sometimes badly so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Thus the ROK transport ministry </FONT><FONT size=4><A href="http://english.mltm.go.kr/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://english.mltm.go.kr</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>proclaims on its homepage: "Make Happiness, Happy Creator".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Amen to that - but what on earth are they on about?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Then again, in one classic corporate case where </FONT><FONT size=4>Koreans </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>dreamed up an 'English' product name, </FONT><FONT size=4>the LG Viewty </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>has sold very well. </FONT><FONT size=4>(Viewty is in the eye of the veholder?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- Another thing. English apart, why are so many corporate</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>and official South Korean websites </FONT><FONT size=4>festooned with </FONT><FONT size=4>cutesy birds and butterflies, winsome kids, </FONT><FONT size=4>cartoon characters and the like? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Almost as nauseating, at </FONT><FONT size=4>the opposite end of the scale, as </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>North Korea's bloody rats. </FONT><FONT size=4>(Perhaps I am hard to please.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=yiv1202027554MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3>Aidan Foster-Carter</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/21/2012 08:02:22 GMT Daylight Time, jimhoare64@aol.co.uk writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>I agree that KCNA did not seem to use polishers, The FLPH laid off the </FONT>remaining<FONT size=2> foreign staff while we were there in 2001-02 and thereafter seemed to relay on Koreans - no doubt this explains the odd language.</FONT></FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But even when they did employ foreign staff, the Korean staff would often override what the native speakers had suggested.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On a slightly different note, what use would one make of photographs of such people if one had them? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jim Hoare<BR></FONT><BR><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Afostercarter <Afostercarter@aol.com><BR>To: koreanstudies <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><BR>CC: jsburgeson <jsburgeson@yahoo.com><BR>Sent: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:34<BR>Subject: Re: [KS] Foreign copy-editors and polishers in Pyongyang<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Scott raises the question of native speakers of English (etc)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>as copy-editors - also known as 'polishers' - in North Korea.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Having in the past recruited at least two people for such roles</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- Michael Harrold, and the late Andrew Holloway <A title=http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html href="http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- this is a topic about which I'm curious, but not up-to-date.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Michael, Andrew and others were hired by the DPRK</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Foreign Languages </FONT><FONT size=4>Publishing House (FLPH). The texts</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>they worked on were mostly books, as best I recall.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>By contrast, I've never heard of KCNA using foreigners.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>My guess would be that they don't, given some stilted</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>expressions and the odd mistake.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>For example, surely if a native English speaker were</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>involved they would have recommended a different word</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- be it technical or colloquial - for "bottom hole" in the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>third sentence of the </FONT><FONT size=4>caption to the cartoon below.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>There are other linguistic infelicities here as well,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>not least the title. Either tear apart or tear to pieces,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>but not tear apart to pieces.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>(</FONT><FONT size=4>On the substance: In my article I likened doing the research</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>for this to wading through sewage. You can see why.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- But back to polishers. FLPH still uses at least one, but he </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>lives in Beijing. See an interesting interview with Paul White</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>at Tad Farrell's ever more indispensable NKNews:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/ href="http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT size=3>http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>From <A title=http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html href="http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html</A> (cartoon 5)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><IMG style="CURSOR: pointer" src="http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/resource/images/05.jpg" width=450><BR>
<CENTER><B><FONT face=Cambria>Tear Apart Lee Myung Bak to Pieces</FONT></B></CENTER><BR><FONT face=Cambria>The dirty hairy body of rat-like Myung Bak is being stabbed with bayonets. One is right in his neck and the heart has already burst open. Blood is flowing out of its filthy bottom hole. This is not too much to Lee as he committed only sordid acts of flunkeyism and treachery. And this is not all. It is the strong will and pledge of the army and people of the DPRK to tear apart Lee Myung Bak to pieces</FONT>.</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/20/2012 11:27:17 GMT Daylight Time, <A title=mailto:jsburgeson@yahoo.com href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jsburgeson@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:jsburgeson@yahoo.com">jsburgeson@yahoo.com</A> writes:</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Thanks for the great article, Aiden! Did you have to put bandaids on your eye-balls after reading so much slashing, violent fulmination?
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<DIV>Any chance you can dig up photos of some of the foreign devils who copy-edited this stuff in English? One wonders if they have PTSD by now; hopefully they were sharp enough to ask in advance to be paid in soju!</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 5/18/12, Aidan Foster-Carter <I><<A title=mailto:afostercarter@aol.com href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@aol.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com">afostercarter@aol.com</A>></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Aidan Foster-Carter <<A title=mailto:afostercarter@aol.com href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@aol.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com">afostercarter@aol.com</A>><BR>Subject: [KS] (no subject)<BR>To: <A title=mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 9:56 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>Just to let you know that the new issue of <EM>Comparative Connections</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>- the thrice-yearly online journal published by Pacific Forum-CSIS -</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>includes what I think is the first full account and detailed analysis</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>in English of </FONT><FONT size=4>North Korea's ongoing bloodthirsty fulminations</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>against </FONT><FONT size=4>South Korea and especially its President, Lee Myung-bak.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>
<DIV><FONT size=4>In over 40 years of following North Korea, I've read tons of rich</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>DPRK invective - but never anything as bizarre and nasty as this.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>(They don't much care for Park Geun-hye, either; for all that she</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>dined with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang less than a decade ago.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>In case of interest, this article is freely available to all at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><A style="COLOR: blue; CURSOR: pointer" title=http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf href="http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT size=4>http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>The full issue, which as ever also has three further articles on Korea</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>covering the two Koreas' relations with the US, China and Japan,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>can be accessed at </FONT><A style="COLOR: blue; CURSOR: pointer" title=http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections href="http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT size=4>http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>All good wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
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