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Korean_Romeo wrote:

Benny wrote:

Korean_Romeo wrote:

Benny wrote:

Korean_Romeo wrote: I just started reading this book - South Korean economist Yang Woo-jin's Re-reading the Modern History of Korea.

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when you reading things like that in English, does it sound any different to the original one? I know English doesn't fully cover ours at some point.

I'm actually reading it in Korean.

Maybe not this case, similar things happened to your history ? Like they did in the social media

Obviously they are not going to be able to translate the full sentiment fully. And some words are extremely difficult(or even impossible) to be translated into English.(Usually in this case, I've seen American authors making greater efforts to explain it fully so his/her English readers can understand things that are uniquely Korean) But overall, I've been more satisfied with American work. American scholars does much better job translating Korean to English than Koreans do with translating English to Korean.

It's funny how we learn about western by history and they learn about us by pop music

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I just started reading this book.

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