Topic: Looking for someone to help contact a korean artist (Ehfa)

Posted under Art Talk

I'd like to ask a korean artist Ehfa for permission to repost their art here. The problem is, they seem to publish their art on korean-only site and Google Translate is not of much help:

http://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=mlp&no=242738

And they don't seem to have an account on DA, Tumblr, Inkbunny or whatever. If someone can, please contact and ask them. Thanks!

(Yes, I know their art is on Derpibooru so they probably don't care, but I'd like to be sure.)

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if you're willing to spend six months chasing after an artist, you could learn Korean. it's a very logical language.

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"mai-ri-tuhl po-nee gae-luh-ri" for "my little pony gallery"

lol

I have a basic understanding of Korean (definitely enough to read Hangul) and wish I could help you but it's gonna be awhile before I'm at a level good enough to ask that sort of question. Google translate is pretty much worse than nothing for individual words with languages like Korean, and sometimes even those, so good luck finding help.

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Just upload it here. I don't think many of us ever ask artists for permission. If the artist notices their art here and doesn't want it here, they can always contact the admins here and request their art to be taken down.

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You could always make an account and try and send them a message in English AND Korean, of which one of them might be more understandable, and then wait for a response. If nothing happens and you can't find something explicit on their page saying "Do not repost my art", then you could probably post it anyway.

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JCV said:
You could always make an account and try and send them a message in English AND Korean, of which one of them might be more understandable, and then wait for a response. If nothing happens and you can't find something explicit on their page saying "Do not repost my art", then you could probably post it anyway.

I was planning to, but I failed to even register on that board. Many buttons etc. are images, not text and Google Translate doesn't work for them. That's why I asked here...

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A good webpage I found for the sake of asking for permissions was due to a Japanese artist linking me to it to avoid any mistranslations:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

Notice the EN at the end of the url? Change that to KO and it's in Korean. If you can get into the site at all, ask in English if you can post their works, "based on this liscence" and include the url.

Now, regarding the website you sent in:

  • That rectangle button in the top right is the Login button.
  • Below the login field is "Find ID" and "New ID."
  • The following page asks if you're at least 14 (An adult in Korea, I guess)
  • Various terms of service. General, and Personal information collection (which separates into What is collected, Why it's collected, and When it will be deleted). Check them off and hit the blue button.
  • Enter your ID (used to login), display name (Something about not fixed or fixed, I guess you can change it with the former), Password (and confirm), and Real Name. Below that is the email field for confirmation.

For images of text, use this Korean keyboard site to type it out, then use a translator on it. I've seen letters made of up to three symbols, just know that top left is first, and then top right and bottom last. Sometimes the right symbol is tall, other times the bottom is wide, but either way the bottom one comes last. Be warned that smaller phrases don't translate well (ie "Non-Tank Stationary Tanning" was the translation for the tooltip of the dropdown). Sentences can usually translate well, but don't trust it for actually sending messages.

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Furrin_Gok said:
For images of text, use this Korean keyboard site to type it out, then use a translator on it.

Actually, it's unnecessary to type out the text manually. There are several online OCR services that recognize many languages, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese:

http://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-korean-ocr
http://www.newocr.com/
https://convertio.co/ocr/korean/
https://www.onlineocr.net/

And several more. Some even integrate OCR with translator.

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