Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has emerged in a variety of fields such as politics, economy, and culture. At the same time the way of communication with other countries is becoming more and more diverse. As the friendly nations across the sea, China and South Korea have been communicating more and more frequently in various fields since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992.
With the improvement of people''s living standards, travel has become an indispensable part of modern life. Based on the tourism statistics from both China and South Korea, South Korea has been the country with the most tourists traveling in China. With the popularity of travel, travel guidebooks are also playing an increasingly important role in the book market which can help tourists to complete their travel more convenient. However, there are not many kinds of travel guidebooks published in Korea ever though China is the most popular tourist destination for Korean tourists. In Korea, there are some travel guidebooks for world-famous tourist cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, but it is difficult to obtain tourist books to introduce other cities with more Chinese characteristics.
As part of public translation, travel guidebooks are directly related to the country’s image and international competitiveness. Proper nouns as one of the most frequent types of words in the travel guidebooks, it will lead to that the same attraction to be translated into several different names if there is no uniform translation standard, which will bring inconvenience to foreign tourists and have a negative influence on the related scenic spots. Therefore, it is very important to form the unified translation of proper nouns in travel guidebooks from the perspective of public.
An article called The guide of Xi''an which published by a world-famous travel publisher-Lonely Planet will be considered as the main research object, and in this essay, it will focus on the "best journey" part in the article and then to translate the introduction of star attractions involved in the trip. In this essay, the proper nouns appearing in the translation process will be classified, and at the same time, based on the categories of proper nouns, the translation methods will be counted and analyzed and then the most appropriate translation methods of various kinds of proper nouns are finally obtained.