#KOREAN SUBTITLES FOR MOVIES MOVIE#

It sounds strange if you make it very abstract and easy to understand.'

'Even if many foreigners watching don't know the school, people understand this must be a prestigious university and you get more of the feeling of the original. You need to try hard to put specifics into the dialogue to make it interesting,' he said. 'The original dialogue is very specific, but the English subtitles were very abstract.

#KOREAN SUBTITLES FOR MOVIES MOVIE#

Taking the example of actress Kim Hye-soo's famous line in the movie 'Tazza: The High Rollers,' whose word-for-word English translation reads like 'I'm an Ewha Womans University graduate,' he says sometimes he think subtitles are too simple. Paquet says it's not mistakes and grammatical errors that ruin subtitles. Most recently he worked on director Park Chan-wook's 'The Handmaiden' and director Na Hong-jin's 'The Wailing,' both of which were invited to this year's Cannes Film Festival last month. The Massachusetts native, who has been living in Korea for nearly 20 years, has been introducing Korean films to international movie fans and working on translations of numerous award-winning Korean films. But other times you come across some that don't, which is very frustrating, because the Korean dialogue is interesting but the subtitles are not,' said Paquet during a recent interview with The Korea Times. Some of the films I see are translated quite well.

'The situation now is better than, for example, the late 1990s. вЂ• ED.Дarcy Paquet, an American film critic and translator who has worked on English subtitles for over 100 Korean films, says movie subtitles in English have come a long way. This is the last of a four-part series on the importance of translation in globalizing Korean culture.

Korean subtitles for movies