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This study tries to provide typological and cultural-psychological explanations for the changes of referential expressions in English-Korean translations. The number of pronoun, name and full NP is strikingly different in the English text and Korean translation text: 190/5 pronouns, 88/156 names and 34/151 full NP's in the English/Korean texts. These statistical differences can be accounted for in the following way: i) a pronoun is used to refer to a continuous participant in English while a name is repeatedly employed in Korean; ii) a full NP showing roles (e.g. family relations such as father and son as well as occupations) in the social organism is preferred, regardless of the topicality of participants in Korean; and iii) a pronoun cannot be used to refer to animals in Korean so that a full NP is chosen instead