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According to Berman, translation is not something through which a translator absorbs or subordinates a culture into his/her own culture, but he/she constitutes an intermediary space between two equal cultures. He claims that a true translator is to play an ethical role in between. Thus, translators’ text-deforming tendencies should be avoided. This paper, based upon Berman’s theory of text deforming, studied cases of text deforming easily found in translating Chinese novels into Korean. As a result, text deforming was characterized mainly by three aspects: first, cases in which translators produced inconsistent texts after expanding the texts and destroying the systematicity of the source texts; second, cases of excessive domestication; and. third, cases of trying to translate without considering textual rhythm. As a conclusion, translators should bear in mind that translation tends to deform source texts, and thus, translators of novels should opt for an appropriate strategy for translation.