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This study investigates terminological consistency in the authentic Korean texts of bilateral investment treaties. All the authentic texts of a single international instrument should archive two processes of ensuring terminological consistency: intralingual harmonization and interlingual concordance, However, most of the authoritative Korean translations of international law has not been examined in terms of terminological consistency; and none of the institutional guidelines for authoritative translations pays due attention to this issue. In this regard, this study defines the types of terminological consistency which should be ensured in authoritative translations, and introduces comprehensive methods for investigating terminological consistency in authentic translations of international law. For terminologies of juristic person taken from some Korean texts of BITs, this study examines intertextual variability and intratextual variability for intralingual harmonization, and translation adequacy for interlingual concordance, which reveals complete failure of achieving terminological consistency in those instruments.