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   A decimal point or a comma in some numbers may change its position as the number is translated from Korean to English and vice versa.

In English, units of counting change by the thousands, whereas in Korean, units change by the ten-thousands.  Despite this linguistic difference, Koreans use the thousand separator (,) in written numbers exactly as it is used in English-speaking countries.  For this reason, the following type of change occurs when a number is translated from Korean to English.

Korean Text
Net profit: ₩ 2,644 “Uck” [Note the comma after the first figure.]

English Translation
Net profit:  ₩ 264.4 Billion [Note the period after the third figure.]
 		      
   

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