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The paper uses an English-Korean literary translation corpus and a comparable authentic Korean literary corpus to test two translation universal hypotheses, simplification and leveling-out. Standardized type-token ratio (STTR) and mean sentence length are calculated by using the Wordsmith Tools program, to see if there are statistically significant differences in their mean values between the two corpora. The analysis shows that the translation corpus is lower in both measures than the non-translation corpus, supporting the simplification hypothesis. The translation corpus is also lower in variance, showing greater homogeneity than the non-translation corpus, which supports the leveling-out hypothesis.