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Here's what is most likely true: - There is no shortage of Korean to English (or Korean to French or Korean to German for that matter) translators in Korea (sa

Here's what is most likely true: - There is no shortage of Korean to English (or Korean to French or Korean to German for that matter) translators in Korea (same applies to all popular languages where it makes business sense to have these translations) - Translation falls in the category of jobs that is completely doable remotely - A small fully remote team of people can produce high quality translations very efficiently So, I don't believe that the problem is "translator shortage". It's a problem of organization and management or economics of it.

umeshunni 5y ago
But another part of what the article says is that "Korean to English" translators might be plenty, but "Korean to Spanish" translators are rarer and won't work for whatever wages a media translation firm is willing to pay. So, you get a "Korean to English" translator who translates the script to english ("pivoting") and then an "English to Spanish" translator who translates the english 'pivot' to Spanish. As you can imagine or as you might have observed from doing Google translates, this ends up with a poor result.