나오미 in korea


Korean companies botch English slogans
25 July, 2007, 5:20 pm
Filed under: korea, language, travel

The first in an ongoing series: 

Diet your point card.

Bravo your life!
Samsung life insurance

Have a good time!
Good time chance
KTF phone company

Digital Exciting
Anycall phone company

Think Star
KB Bank

Humanism Through Digital
SBS broadcasting

Milk Itself
Seoul Milk

Think Benefit
Samsung credit cards

KT&G and You (Korea Tomorrow and Global)
KT&G tobacco company

These are large, in some cases multinational companies. Imagine what the English is like down on street level.


2 Comments so far
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classic. so funny!

Comment by emily

You pointed out such a sour point. :D Aside from the question why all the slogans of big Korean companies have to be in English, I’m surprised they don’t have one person in the whole company who speaks proper English. And imagine all the TOEFL scores they require to get in!

Comment by yunjin




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