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The job, 'translator' has been in the spotlight for decades in Korea as one of the most aspiring jobs among young college students. This reflects the fact that communication between countries using different languages has been on the increase, and people across the world have increased their demands to obtain information faster than any others. In line with this trend, there have been a lot of works for translators to facilitate the communication between people using different languages. In recent years, there have been a lot of translations in the areas of children's books and books that introduce Korea and its culture to foreigners. This paper aims to find out a strategy applicable in translating texts that have different target readers through analysing the translated works of children's books and a cooking guide book. 'Abstraction ladder' was introduced as a strategy to find out proper registers to be used for texts of different genres. Although there might be other factors in selecting registers to be used in translating texts of different genres, this paper chose 'register' as the research target. Through further researches, it is expected that more factors that affect translating works of different genres more effectively so that translated texts have equivalent effects with source texts to their readers could be found out.