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    Sungsoo Kim

    Sungsoo Kim

    Korean translator

    Market Harborough, United Kingdom

    RELIABLE, EFFECTIVE and HONEST translator and Interpreter from Korean into English or vice versa -a South Korean, I studied in the UK from 1990 to 1998 and have worked continually...Read moreRELIABLE, EFFECTIVE and HONEST translator and Interpreter from Korean into English or vice versa -a South Korean, I studied in the UK from 1990 to 1998 and have worked continually in English and Korean since 1998 in the UK and in Korea for various organizations, including a considerable amount of translation and interpretation work. I am currently accepting freelance translation projects.

    Area Covered: Leicester, London, Market Harborough
    Work Experience Summary:  Qualifications - BA, MA and PhD in humanities from UK universities.

     Translation Experience - includes reports, magazines, newsletters, books, articles etc. Published translations:
    - Truth and Reconciliation: Activities of Past Three Years (Seoul: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Republic of Korea, 2009) (Co-translator)
    - 2007 The K-PACT Annual Report (Seoul: The K-PACT Council, 2007) (Co-translator)
    - 2006 The •KPACT Annual Report (Seoul: The K-PACT Council, 2006) (Co-translator)
    - The Pact for the Future (Seoul: The K-PACT Council, 2006) (Co-translator)
    - Together Transparent, Vol1 & 2: The K-PACT English Magazine (Seoul: The K-PACT Council, 2005, 2006) (Co-translator)
    - A Hard Journey to Justice (Seoul: Presidential Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths, 2004) (Co-translator)

     Interpretation Experience - business sector, educational sector, public sector. Assignments include:
    - Interpreter on Korean ministerial level overseas business trips to countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Tanzania, and Rwanda (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea, 2007-2010)
    - Interpreter for Korean NGO staff on overseas business trips to Australia and Guatemala (The K-PACT Council, 2005-2007)
    - Simultaneous interpreter for interview with Swedish writer for Korean educational television program (2001)
    - Personal interpreter of Lord Sainsbury (then Minister of Trade and Industry) when he held a meeting with his Korean counterpart (1999)

     Original English Publications - books and articles that I have written in English include:
    Books
    Ham Sok Hon: Voice of the People and Pioneer of Religious Pluralism in Twentieth Century Korea; Biography of a Korean Quaker (Seoul: Samin Books, 2001) (http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue5-7.html)
    An Anthology of Ham Sok Hon (Seoul: Samin Books, 2001) (Co-author) (http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/a_faithful_korean_quaker.htm)
    Articles
    “Ingle Wright (Lawrence) (1923-1997) and Koreans”, The Religious Society of Friends. Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting News Letter, April 1997
    \"Ham Sok-Hon: Free Thinker and Pacifist,\" Peace Island, 2005 Vol.1, pp.92-99 (Jeju Provincial Government, WAIS & IPS CNU, 2005)
    “The First Korean Female Prime Minister Han Myung Sook (1944- )”, The Friend: The British Quaker Weekly, 02 February 2006
    “Ham Sok-hon Fought Against Injustice, Corruption”, The Korea Times, 12.3.2006
    (http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/ham_sok.htm)
    “Crimes, Concealment and South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission”, Japan Focus, 1.8.2008 (http://www.japanfocus.org/-Do-Khiem/2848)
    “Truth and Reconciliation”, The Korea Times, 29.4.2008 (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=23295)
    “Power, justice and truth”, The Korea Times, 27.5.2010
    (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/05/195_66619.html)








    Education Summary: 1994 - 1998 PhD in East Asian Studies University of Sheffield, UK
    1993 - 1994 MA in History University of Essex, UK
    1990 - 1993 BA (Hons) in History University of Essex, UK
    1983 - 1988 English & American Literature Korean Open University
    1979 - 1981 Railway Engineering Diploma
    Teaching Licence in Railway Engineering Korea National Railway College

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