Problems of Rendering Korean Xenonyms in German(Based on the Works of Modern Korean Authors)
The article examines cultural and linguistic contacts between Germany and Korea; ways of adequate rendering of the Korean xenonyms, occurring in literary works of modern Korean writers, in German; existing systems of romanization of Korean borrowings and the difference between these systems conducive to the emergence of confusing doublets; phonographic and morphological assimilation of Korean words into German. The relevance of this study is determined by the insufficient research on Korean borrowings and their role in modern German. When translating Korean literature, German translators encounter culturally loaded lexical units, which are cognates of foreign, or “external”, culture. Most of the explanatory German-German dictionaries are linguistic, which means that a significant part of Korean realia - words referring to Korean cultural realities - as purely encyclopedic linguistic units do not find their way into the dictionary and often become a problem for the translator to handle.