Flawed signboard at Korea Pavilion to be replaced by mid-October, clarifies KCCI
KCCI has clarified that the signboard was a temporal structure before the completion of the park, and an Indian certified translation agency did Hindi translation, and it seems there were mistakes from the carving process in Korea.
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NEW DELHI: The Korean Cultural Centre India (KCCI) has said that the signboard using erroneous Hindi language at the Korea Pavilion situated in the under-construction Queen Huh Memorial Park in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, would soon be replaced.
In a swift response to the ACN news article “Korea Pavilion’s signboard uses flawed Hindi language at Queen Huh Memorial Park in Ayodhya“, the KCCI authorities also clarified that this signboard was a temporal structure before the completion of the park, and Korean as well as UP government, both were aware of this error.
The KCCI is the cultural promotion arm of the Republic of Korea (RoK) government in India, with its headquarters in New Delhi.
An Indian certified translation agency did Hindi translation, and it seems there were mistakes from the carving process in Korea, KCCI added.
Being constructed at the whopping cost of Rs. 24 crores, the park is yet to be completed and is likely to be opened to the public sometime in November, around the Diwali festival.
“Hindi translation was done by an Indian certified translation agency with their notary attested certificate. However, it seems there were mistakes from the carving process in Korea,” clarified the KCCI authorities.
“The signboard was made as temporal structure before the completion, UP government and we both have been aware of the mistakes and the parts which are needed to be updated. So, we have been preparing and making a new signboard. It will be installed at the completion examination by UP and Korea governments at around the middle of October,” said the KCCI authorities.
While KCCI reiterated, “We will be more careful and double-checked not to have happened this kind of thing again.”
This black granite signboard carries information on the Korean Pavilion in three languages – Korean, Hindi, and English. There seems no issue with English and Korean languages.
It has many Hindi words as wrongly spelled, such as कोरयिा (Korea), which should have been कोरिया.
