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This study examined the source and target paratexts of Gulliver’s Travels with an aim to show how paratexts are structured or restructured through translation. The study assumed that the structuring of paratexts may be different depending on when the target texts were produced. The source text used for this study was the London edition of Gulliver’s Travels published in 1726. The 6 Korean translations selected for the analysis include the first unabridged translation published in 1975 and the first single edition that came out in 1987. According to the findings of the study, the source paratext was used as a site for providing background information about the main text such as how the work was published and the author’s intent of writing the work among others. The elements of source paratext were mostly preserved in the target texts supplementing the context of the source text. In more recent translations published after 2000 new elements such as illustrations were added to complement readers’ text reading. In conclusion, it can be said that paratext is actively used in mediating the gap between the source and target text world not only by preserving the source paratext but also restructuring or adding new elements in the target texts.