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French director Dany Boon’s movie, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis became a hit, attracting the highest number of viewers among all French films in France. The synopsis of this movie is relatively simple. A southern postmaster, Philippe Abrams, is appointed to work in Bergues, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a northern region of France. There, he is shocked by the linguistic and cultural differences between the southern and northern regions, but the film resolves the conflicts humorously. This is not a fresh story; rather, it is based on a universality that can enable a change in contexts in any country or any region. But from a translational perspective this intralinguistic difference is the main element of the movie and it is difficult to translate. So the translation of the northern dialect is the main translation issue and the greatest challenge for the translator. As proof of this difficulty, many translation studies have already been published in Europe. This movie was released in Korea in July 2015. However, there are vast differences between the European and Korean subtitles. The Korean subtitles are ‘relay translations’ via the English subtitles, while the European translations are a direct translation from French. Therefore, this article focuses on the problem of ‘relay translation’ in the Korean subtitles of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis and analyzes their errors and deviations. Above all, if we consider that reality that most foreign movies, except English movies and a few Japanese movies, are translated via English subtitles in Korea, research into relay translation is an urgent matter.