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Translating cultural elements is no doubt a difficult task as culture-bound words and expressions often do not have an accurate and direct representation in other language due to cultural differences. In order to gain better understanding on translating cultural elements, this paper reviewed previous Korean studies on this topic and looked into the multilingual dictionary translation project for the Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary, which was carried out by the National Institute of Korean Language in 2015. This paper further studied the process of how culture-specific Korean words in Korean dictionary were translated into English for English-speaking foreigners learning the Korean language. In the multilingual dictionary translation project, culture-bound words were systematically categorized and translated under a set of translation principles. These efforts are expected to improve translation of cultural elements, especially in translating name of places and cultural properties, and ultimately contribute in establishing translation standardization of cultural elements.