ABSTRACT
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has served as a robust research framework in translation studies in a number of languages (see Kim & Matthiessen, 2015 for examples). It has been adopted in many Korean translation studies as well (e.g. Kim, 2007, 2008, 2009; C. Lee, 2006; Sung, 2016; J. Lee, 2020, to name a few). However, such studies have a methodological limitation due to the absence of a systemic functional description of Korean. This limitation may be addressed by the publication of Korean Grammar: A Systemic Functional Perspective in 2023 (Kim et al., 2023). This chapter explores how the first comprehensive systemic functional grammar of Korean might be used as a theoretical framework to explore various issues in the discipline of Interpreting.
