The late part of the previous century marks the birth and growth of hybrid languages, more often than not mixing a country’s native language with a variety of English. This is mainly due to countries’ borders opening for trade, which…
Japan and Korea have shared a common cultural tradition of broadly defined Confucianism, which in general is quite different from the Western tradition. Their modern fate diverged after the East came into contact with the West around the middle of…
With the Golden Globes stepping off the stage for this year, you have probably started coming across the name “Parasite” quite often. This is because of the 6-times-nominated and, consequently awarded Korean production – Parasite. The film is the winner…
The interactive entertainment software industry, popularly known as the video game industry is reaching overwhelming numbers in net worth and profit from sales. Japan has the third-largest gaming market globally ($19,2 billion revenue), with the USA and China taking the…
Netflix may be prohibited in China – where government regulation favors homegrown rivals like iQiyi, Tencent Video, and Alibaba’s Youku – but that hasn’t stopped the US-based streaming-video giant from courting Chinese audiences outside of China. The company is now…
This might come across as a topic that people rarely think about, but if you happen to be a fan of books and novels and have a background that involves reading many of them, you will probably appreciate this quick…
What is localization? A lot of people nowadays can’t tell the difference between translation and localization. It’s an understatement to say that those two things are not one and the same. Translation means converting your content from the source language…