YINGZI KONG (Kathryn)
EDUCATION
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) Seoul, Republic of Korea
M.A., Translation Studies 2020.03-2022.08
Thesis: Translation Strategies of Culture-Specific Items in Chinese-English Game Localization
Advisor: Seung-eun Sung
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Chinese Native
English Advanced
Certificates: CATTI-2 (Level-2 of China Accreditation Test for Translators and Interpreters)
Korean Intermediate
Scores: TOPIK 5 (Level-5 of Test of Proficiency in Korean) (2019)
Certificates: Graduate Certificate of the Foreign Language Training and Testing Center at HUFS, Levels 1-4 (Dec. 2018 – Dec. 2019)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Video Games and Game Narratives
Machine Translation, Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL), and Game-based Learning
Digital Media and Digital Storytelling
SKILLS
Technical: AntConc (a corpus analysis toolkit), CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools (Trados, MemoQ), Microsoft Office (Word, PPT), MidJourney, Premier