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Squid Game wins Emmys for best actor, director
Monday was another big night for international entertainment with an Emmy win for Lee Jung-jae and Hwang Dong-hyuk of Squid Game.
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Squid Game makes history as first non-English nominee at the Emmys for outstanding drama
Squid Game, the subject of everyone’s favorite subtitling debate, has become the first non-English television series to receive a nomination for outstanding drama at the Emmy Awards.
Culture
One of the Biggest Multilingual Shows Ever – Pachinko
Not only does the show need to have an all-Asian cast, but it also needed to be told in three languages: Korean, Japanese, and English, as its characters migrated across the world.
Localization
Subtitlers’ association launches website redesign amid discussion over the profession’s future
SUBTLE, an association of audiovisual translators (AVT) founded in the United Kingdom, recently re-launched its website and updated its membership benefits, a move which it announced last week on Twitter. The association’s website redesign and updated benefits come at a particularly interesting crossroads for the AVT and subtitling profession.
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ATA president Madalena Sánchez Zampaulo talks fair pay
Last week, the American Translators Association (ATA) weighed in on the ongoing debate surrounding worker compensation in entertainment localization, calling for fair pay. MultiLingual...
Business
American Translators Association calls for fair localization
The American Translators Association (ATA) called Tuesday for the entertainment industry to fairly compensate translators, heating up an ongoing debate about the localization workforce.
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Localization
Netflix hit Squid Game highlights localization pain points
Netflix paid $13 per minute for translation from Korean audio to English subtitles. But the translators themselves saw little of that payout. It’s emblematic of the labor shortage that could beset the entertainment industry as international media surges in popularity.
Localization
Squid Game smashes barriers and records, highlights importance of translation
Squid Game, the blood-spattered, dystopian South Korean critique of modern capitalism from Netflix, is set to become the streaming platform's most watched series in...