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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Korean

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Source text in English

[...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...]

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Entry #38186 — Discuss 0 — Variant: South Korea
Winner
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(시시껄렁한 비밀이거나 비밀이라고도 할 수도 없는 내용일 때도) 앞으로 몸을 기울였다. "내가 여
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Appropriat​e paraphra​sing
Amber Kim
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Flows well
Amber Kim
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"그것까진 알 필요가 없고."
Good term selection
Amber Kim
그게 핵심이지
Good term selection
Good refle​ction of t​he origina​l repetiti​on
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Entry #37975 — Discuss 0 — Variant: South Korea
Haegeum Ryu
Haegeum Ryu
Coreia do Sul
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Sebeen Lee
Sebeen Lee
Coreia do Sul
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Hoyoung An
Hoyoung An
Coreia do Sul
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61 x41 x20
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Ha Na Lee
Ha Na Lee
Coreia do Sul
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Taesun Jung
Taesun Jung
Coreia do Sul
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401 x22 x1
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Jeong Yeon Heo
Jeong Yeon Heo
Coreia do Sul
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1001 x1
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