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Kim, Han-sik. (2007). Differences between Korean and Japanese Newspaper Articles : from the Perspective of Sentence Length. Interpreting and Translation Studies 10-2, pp.69-83.
This thesis makes analysis of the differences between Korean and Japanese newspaper articles for each section and publisher from the perspective of sentence length (character count per sentence). One of the most noticeable differences found was that while Japanese newspaper articles maintained about the same character count regardless of subject area, Korean articles showed particularly higher character count in politics, society and economy sections. It has also been studied that the Korean newspaper articles had higher character count than that of Japanese newspaper articles on average. However, against one's expectation, it was the other way around when it came to the lead text, as higher number of long sentences has been found in Japanese newspaper articles than in Korean ones.
Unlike opinions, news stories tend to stay away from exposing writer's literary style. Therefore, in his/her translation strategy, a translator is recommended to place greater importance on readability of the Target Text than on the issues involving the Source Text.