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This study examines the challenges of ACCEPTED 24 February 2025 translating Korean cultural elements into Uzbek and PUBLISHED 26 March 2025 VOLUME Vol.05 Issue 03 2025 explores various strategies to address practical incongruities (실제적 부등성). The research applies R. Stolze’s theory of cultural incongruence and Venuti’s COPYRIGHT domestication and foreignization strategies to analyze © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. the cultural adaptation process in translation. Using data from the Korean National Culture Encyclopedia, the study identifies five major strategies employed in translating culture-specific items. The findings indicate that domestication is the predominant strategy due to its accessibility for the target audience, while foreignization is selectively used to preserve cultural authenticity. The study concludes that an optimal translation approach requires a context-dependent balance between domestication and foreignization. These findings provide valuable insights for translation studies, particularly in training future translators for Korean-Uzbek cultural exchange. Keywords: Cultural translation, Korean-Uzbek translation, practical incongruence, domestication, foreignization, cultural adaptation, equivalence in translation, translation strategies. Introduction: Translation is the process of converting a source text into a target text. As the connection between translation and culture has developed based on new principles, the concept of “cultural elements” has been introduced into translation theory. Cultural elements refer to all socio-cultural factors that shape understanding or corresponding actions in a given context. This concept includes not only linguistic phenomena but also non-linguistic aspects that do not exist in the target language’s culture or are defined differently. When considering cultural elements in translation, it European International Journal of Philological Sciences 42 https://eipublication.com/index.php/eijps European International Journal of Philological Sciences becomes clear that translation involves accurately artworks, and other cultural references. recognizing cultural components in the source S.Sun highlights that these terms lack direct equivalents language and recreating them in the target language. in the target language culture, making translation more If a translator does not fully understand the cultural complex. As a cultural mediator, the translator plays a differences between Korean and Uzbek, errors in crucial role in bridging the gap between the source and translation are likely to occur. Such differences can target language cultures. Relying on S.Sun perspective sometimes create barriers to accurate comprehension. categorizes cultural elements as follows: Therefore, cultural elements play an increasingly 1. Proper nouns (names of people, buildings, significant role in translation, and interest in organizations) translation strategies addressing these elements is growing. 2. Culture-related units R. Stolze defines cultural elements unique to the 3. Units associated with specific events and figures source language culture but absent in the target 4. Idiomatic expressions language culture as "practical incongruence" (실제적 5. Measurement units 부등성). If such discrepancies exist between cultural Although scholars have yet to reach a complete elements, translation becomes more challenging. consensus on the classification of cultural elements, However, by employing appropriate compensation their concepts and understandings are largely similar. mechanisms, these cultural gaps can be bridged. The Therefore, this article follows Kim Hyo-jung’s approach aim of this article is to identify effective translation and refers to cultural elements as "cultural units." strategies that help compensate for these cultural If the set of cultural elements present in the source differences. language culture has not developed in the same way in Therefore, this study explores the theory of cultural the target language culture, a cultural discrepancy discrepancies and analyzes various translation arises. R. Stolze explains this phenomenon as follows: strategies in Korean-Uzbek translation through cultural elements that are widely known and commonly practical examples. understood in the source language culture but unfamiliar in the target language culture; elements that Literature Review evoke specific associations in the source language Theories of Translating Cultural Elements culture but do not perform the same function in the The concept of "cultural elements" is similar to a target language culture; and elements that are linguistic phoneme and represents fundamental insignificant in the source culture but carry significant components of culture. Skopos theory founder connotations in the target culture. Vermeer considers language a part of culture and According to Stolze, a text is a product of cultu