PHOTOS A glimpse into 50th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards

The winners of the 50th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards pose for a photo at the awards ceremony at the Korea Press Center, Wednesday evening. From left in the back row are Professor Jung Ha-yun (judge), First Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Kim Yong-sam, Brother Anthony (judge), Literature Translation Institute of Korea President Kim Sa-in, The Korea Times President-Publisher Lee Byeong-eon, Professor Min Eun-kyung (judge), and KB Financial Group Senior Managing Director Sung Chai-hyun. From right in the front row are fiction grand prize winner Leo-Thomas Brylowski, fiction commendation award winner Grace Payer, poetry commendation prize winner Yoo Ji-young, and fiction commendation award winner Jasmine Jeemin Lee. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

First Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Kim Yong-sam with fiction grand prize winner Leo-Thomas Brylowski. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Poetry commendation prize winner Yoo Ji-young and KB Financial Group Senior Managing Director Sung Chai-hyun. KB was the main sponsor of the awards. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Ewha Womans University Professor Jung Ha-yun, a judge, speaks to the audience. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Sogang University emeritus professor Brother Anthony, a judge, listens intently during the awards ceremony. Next to him is Hong Soon-il, 87, former Korea Times chief editorial writer. In 1970, as the newspaper's managing editor, he launched the annual translation awards after being inspired by Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968 with “Snow Country.” Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Attendees read The Korea Times before the ceremony begins. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) President Kim Sa-in. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk