중국의 한중번역 자막팀의 역사와 현황

Abstract

This essay talks about the history and the current situation of Korean-Chinese-Subtitle-Team, which has made an amount of subtitle works from Korean video contents, also known as K-dramas or K-entertainment programs or so. High-speed internet popularization could trace back to approximately 2000s, and the Korean-Chinese-Subtitle-Team also sprang up from then on in China. In addition, people used to watch videos by CDs(DVDs), but nowadays when it became to a visual measure like MP4s, people could get the video resources and edit them by an easier and quicker way. Due to the invention of the internet, Subtitle-Team which is mostly composed of fans of K-culture has developed and expanded rapidly without space constraints. As K-culture became more popular in China, the number of subtitle teams became larger and different teams started to reveal their own characters. Although Subtitle-Team is extremely important to the development of K-culture in China, we could allege that the Subtitle-Team is illegal when it comes to the copyright. However, the Chinese government has enforced the restriction on K-culture in the recent few years. Especially since 2017, when the government carried out a ban, which is called “Korean restriction order”, because of the THAAD dispute, the Subtitle-Team has remained stagnant, even though the most famous and competitive subtitle team is also going through a hard time. To conserve Korean-Chinese-Subtitle-Team, the way of their translation developed into “real-time translation” and they also started to run more and more business for profit.