Close the circle.

Korean translation: 마지막 획을 긋다 or 새 동업자를 찾다

17:29 Nov 2, 2003

English to Korean translations [PRO]
Marketing

English term or phrase: Close the circle.

This is a phrase (or sentence) to open a marketing presentation for partnership, appearing in the center of Slide 1 along with a kind of subtitle, "It's time to make your business stronger".

Thanks in advance for your help.

DiTTOSS KudoZ activity Questions: 3 (none open) Answers: 14
Local time: 09:06

Korean translation:마지막 획을 긋다 or 새 동업자를 찾다

Explanation:
To "close the circle" is to complete something in a way that makes it significantly better. The action, though it maybe small, completes the "circle" making it functionally complete. I would translate this as "마지막 획을 긋다."

In a more specific sense it can mean the bringing together of a group or "circle" of friends. Maybe by improving the communication between them but also by finding a lost or missing member of the group to close the final gap in the circle.

I would suggest in this context that closing the circle might be finding a new partner with the resources to make the business stronger as the new partner would fill in gaps in the company that maybe the existing partners do not know exist. I would translate this as "새 동업자를 구하다(찾다)."

Selected response from:

mirine
Canada
Local time: 18:06

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Thanks Young Kwon, hochang and mirine.

In fact, I wish I could choose all the answers as they help me much alike to get the picture.

With help of you three, I reckon it as "By making partnership with us, Fill a gap (or Make up a deficiency) of your business, or Complete your business", although I am still in trouble with finding best Korean words for the sentence...
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Summary of answers provided

완결하다 완성하다 종결하다

Young Kwon

마지막 획을 긋다 or 새 동업자를 찾다

mirine

하나가 됩시다

Hochang Min

Answers

4 hrs confidence:

완결하다 완성하다 종결하다

Explanation:
Close the circle 원형 진을 펼치다의 뜻에서

Young Kwon
South Korea
Native speaker of:

Korean
PRO pts in pair: 294

10 hrs confidence:

하나가 됩시다

Explanation:
Of course, it does not say "We should be one" or anything like that. However, I am sensing this is the beginning of the presentation (slide 1) where the subtitle is what you said above.
We can deduce that each company, partners represent a half circle and by coming together, they can make a circle that is strong. Thus "Close the Circle" should be understood as something like "Let us be one" kind of language.

It's is really upto you whether to make this a literal translation which does not make too much sense or use the peotic license and to translate it free-flowing...

I would like to suggest "하나가 됩시다."

Hochang Min
Local time: 17:06
Native speaker of:

English,

Korean

11 hrs confidence:

마지막 획을 긋다 or 새 동업자를 찾다

mirine
Canada
Local time: 18:06
Native speaker of:

Korean
PRO pts in pair: 22

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