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The Foreign Language Translation Center (FLTC) in Korea TourismOrganization (KTO) has served as a control tower for translating foreignlanguages specifically designed for tourism promotions, special events ortravel related materials, since KTO installed Foreign LanguageTranslation Center on the premises. This is unprecedented and might bethe first of this kind. This paper aims to study the progress ofestablishing a foreign language translation center inside the governmentorganization; the inner or outer conditions before establishing FLTC, theprocess of installing and operating FLTC, and the effect of establishingFLTC on the other sectors of KTO will be examined. Despite the factthat tourism translation takes up a mere 10% of the entire public sectortranslation, the increased amount of in-bound foreign tourists and thedirect and indirect influence of promotional brochures on the tourists hasenabled establishing a translation center inside the governmentorganization. Furthermore, the collaboration between linguistic expertsand policy makers in tourism is noteworthy to establish this special bodyfor translation, and has the implied significance to the public sectortranslation system. Consequently it is plausible to consider the factors that made this possible, which will be modeled as a precedent infounding the potential public translation center. Establishing the publictranslation center will ultimately improve the quality of translation andwill contribute to the creative economy by cultivating a new generationof translators and creating job openings.