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With growing cross-border exchanges between Korea and China, people in the two countries become exposed to translated texts more frequently, which has led to various studies about Korean-Chinese translation. Compared with other languages – especially English, however, corpus- and statistic-based studies about Korean-Chinese translation have not been actively conducted. Moreover, earlier studies are limited in scope, merely touching on translation errors or analyzing the titles of newspaper articles. Corpus- and statistic-based studies have recently begun to draw attention in the field of translation studies as a method making an objective, quantitative analysis possible. This article intends to establish a corpus of original and translated mandarin Chinese texts and explore the simplification hypothesis to see if the hypothesis is applicable to Korean-Chinese translation through the comparison of the aforementioned original and translated texts based on criteria such as lexical diversity, length of sentence, diversity of predicates, etc.