A study of the job satisfaction of professional interpreters may cast light on the current state of the profession and its prospects. Through a questionnaire-based survey of 150 professional interpreters in South Korea, this study examines various factors contributing to the job satisfaction of professional interpreters, including individual characteristics and job characteristics. Statistically significant correlations were confirmed between job satisfaction and marital status, the length of the interpreting career, average weekly working hours, and the dominant employment type of the respondents. While the respondents overwhelmingly chose income as the most important factor that determines their satisfaction, a multiple regression analysis revealed that job security was the most important factor, which was in turn strongly correlated with social recognition. This case study provides an analysis of the status quo of the profession in South Korea and has implications for the industry and for interpreter training.

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专业口译员的工作满意度及相关因素

对专业口译员的工作满意度进行的研究可能会为该行业的现状及其前景提供启示。通过对韩国150名专业口译员进行的基于问卷调查的调查，本研究考察了影响专业口译员工作满意度的各种因素，包括个人特征和工作特征。在工作满意度和婚姻状况，口译职业的时间长短，平均每周工作时间以及受访者的主要就业类型之间证实了统计学上的显着相关性。尽管受访者绝大多数选择收入作为决定其满意度的最重要因素，但多元回归分析表明，工作安全是最重要的因素，反过来又与社会认可度密切相关。该案例研究提供了对韩国该行业现状的分析，对行业和口译培训具有重要意义。