Lecturer in Law
Biography
Dr. Yoo, who teaches at Ewha Woman’s University (EWU), is one of Korea's leading experts in legal translation.
She earned her PhD in Translation Studies from EWU's Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation (GSTI).
Following her doctoral work, Dr. Yoo was a postdoctoral researcher at Handong International Law School (HILS) while funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Her professional experience includes over 15 years as a full-time and freelance legal translator at a major Korean law firm in Seoul and the Korea Legislation Research Institute.
She has lectured extensively on legal translation at several universities.
Dr. Yoo's major research interests include legal translation, legal writing and drafting in plain language, legal translation assessment and pedagogy, and corpus linguistics as a methodology for translation studies.
Dr. Yoo, who teaches at Ewha Woman’s University (EWU), is one of Korea's leading experts in legal translation.
She earned her PhD in Translation Studies from EWU's Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation (GSTI).
Following her doctoral work, Dr. Yoo was a postdoctoral researcher at Handong International Law School (HILS) while funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Her professional experience includes over 15 years as a full-time and freelance legal translator at a major Korean law firm in Seoul and the Korea Legislation Research Institute.
She has lectured extensively on legal translation at several universities.
Dr. Yoo's major research interests include legal translation, legal writing and drafting in plain language, legal translation assessment and pedagogy, and corpus linguistics as a methodology for translation studies.