Hi! Would love to help, but could you tell me more about the situation? Particularly, who the audience is, and who is doing the whitewashing. And perhaps tell me how as well. Is it a real person who is constantly getting photoshopped or applied makeup, a fictional POC character getting played by a white person, an animated character being drawn that way, etc.

Hello! If you wrote it yourself, perhaps you can tell us what you meant in English :)!

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큰 사이즈 (or 더 큰 사이즈) 작은 사이즈 (or 더 작은 사이즈)

Adding 해 to ~야 adds a verb. 비가 그쳐야 해. (The rain has to stop.) If you were to remove 해 from the sentence it(비가 그처야) would no longer be a complete sentence because it lacks a verb. 비가 그쳐야 놀러갈 수 있어. (The rain has to stop in order for us to go play.) This is a complete sentence because a verb’s been added again. As for the two sentences, yes, they mean the same thing. Their difference is similar to its counterparts in English. I have to speak Korean well to live comfortably in Korea. To live comfortably in Korea, I have to speak Korean well. ~어야 is a requirement, essentially. Just as a reference, 2nd sentence: 한국에서 편하게 살려면 한국말을 잘해야 해요. 한국에서 살기 편하려면 한국말을 잘 해야 해요. These are better sentences. Still, the original sentence IS understandable, so no need to care too much :)

그냥 "한국어 녹음해주실 분" 해도 괜찮을 것 같아요. 꼭 Collaborator 가 필요하신가요?

First of all, -는데 and -는대 are different. In this lyrics, it is -는데. -는데 can be translated as “but” most times like you’ve mentioned, but only because when used as a conjunction the first part of the sentence explains the situation in which the second part takes place. So if the second part of the sentence is something unexpected from the first part it can naturally be translated as “but”. I’ll give you two examples where 는데 is used as conjunctions, and hopefully you can see what I mean :)! 물 마시는데 갑자기 나한테 소리를 질렀다. (sb) yelled at me all of a sudden when I was drinking water. 다른 사람들은 잘 아는데 난 여전히 몰라. Everyone else knows (well), but I still don’t know. -는데 has another usage(not as a conjunction but rather at the end of the sentence to ask a question), but I’ll omit that because it’s not relevant here. Now to the actual question! Sometimes in translating, if it’s not specifically for language learning, translators often make liberal translations to make the sentence flow and meaning more suited for the target language. Even more so in literary pieces. I think that’s why the translator translated it that way. 하루 종일 웃고 있다는데 세상이 다 아름답다는데 The subject in these sentences is very general. They’ve been hearing how great love is. Everyone says it makes you smile all day / Everyone says the whole world turns beautiful With -는데 here though, these sentences are incomplete. What’s omitted is the second part. However, listeners can guess what it is. The speaker heard all these great things about love, but they have never felt this. I’m being told that the whole world turns beautiful when you love someone, but I never experienced this. (Hence, I wanna know.) Hope this helps!

우리 아이는 오이를 싫어하지만 우유는 좋아해요. (My child doesn’t like cucumbers, but they like milk.) 친구들은 회사에서 커피를 너무 많이 마시는데 저는 주스를 자주 마셔요. (My friends drink too much coffee at work(literal translation>>in company), but I drink juice frequently.) 누나 학교에는 아주 낡은 가구가 있어요. (My (older) sister’s school has a very old furniture. >> could mean multiple furnitures, but better to put 가구들 in that case.) 동생은 교회에 바로 안 가요. (My younger sibling doesn’t go to church right away.) 오빠는 학교 가는 도로에서 항상 라면을 먹어요. (My (older) brother always eats ramen on the way to school.) 오빠는 학교 도로에서 항상 라면을 먹어요. (My (older) brother always eats ramen on the school road.) 어머니 국수는 맛있어요. (My mother’s noodles are tasty.) 언니는 집 부엌에서 오렌지 주스를 잘 만들었어요. (My sister made good orange juice in the kitchen at home.) literal translation >> (My sister made orange juice well in the kitchen at home.) Hope this helps!