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Kim Rahn is the managing editor of The Korea Times. Since joining the company in 2003, she has covered various beats including the presidential office, Seoul city government, the Bank of Korea and the tourism industry. In 2014, she won the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for her coverage of the ordeals of migrant women in Korea.

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53rd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards Judges' Report

From left are Sogang University Professor Emeritus of English language and literature Brother Anthony, Ewha Womans University associate professor of interpreting and translation Jung Ha-yun and Seoul National University professor of English language and literature Min Eun-kyung, the judges of The Korea Times' Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards. Korea Times fileBy Brother Anthony, Jung Ha-yun and Min Eun-kyungAs judges of the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, we have the privilege and pleasure of discovering every year what bilingual readers and writers are reading. It is always interesting to find out what our translators are choosing to translate. We enjoy the element of surprise. Often the translations reflect trends in Korean fiction. For instance, some years we have found our files full of science fiction. However, there is usually a balance between writers who are perennial favorites and relative newcomers. The eclectic mix is itself interesting and instructive to us. Indeed, we sometimes come across unfamiliar writers and works through this trans

Nov 24, 2022By Kim Rahn
[53rd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Judges' Report
  • 53rd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards Fiction Commendation Award winner Giulia Macri
  • 53rd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards Fiction Grand Prize: The Beginning of Winter
  • 53rd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards Fiction Commendation Award: The Forty-Four Lives of a Wedding Dress
  • 53rd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards Fiction Grand Prize winner Graham Hand
K-pop

NCT DREAM to release mini-album 'Candy' for winter season

A teaser image for NCT DREAM's upcoming mini-album “Candy” / Courtesy of SM EntertainmentBy Kim RahnK-pop boy band NCT DREAM will drop a mini-album for the year-end holiday season. Its agency, SM Entertainment, said on Friday that the group will release the special six-track winter mini-album, titled “Candy,” at 6 p.m. on Dec. 16 to streaming platforms. The title track with the same name as the album, is a remake of first-generation K-pop boy band H.O.T.'s 1996 hit song.“NCT DREAM has reinterpreted the original song, which has long been loved, with its own fresh color. We believe 'Candy' will entertain both older and younger generations,” the agency said in a release.The hard copy of the album will be available starting Dec. 19, and reservations will start on Nov. 21 at both online and offline record shops.In March, NCT DREAM, a sub-unit of SM's boy band NCT, dropped its second studio album, “Glitch Mode.” It sold 3.61 million copies, making another 3 million mark following its first studio album released in May last year, “Hot Sa

Nov 18, 2022By Kim Rahn
NCT DREAM to release mini-album 'Candy' for winter season
Films

Lee Jung-eun wins best performance prize for 'Hommage' at Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Actress Lee Jung-eun, right, in a scene from the film, “Hommage” / Courtesy of June Film By Kim RahnActress Lee Jung-eun has clinched the Best Performance award at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) for her first lead role in the film, “Hommage.” It was her second time to win a prize with the 2021 film, following the Best Actor award at the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) in October.The actress, who impressed international audiences with her housekeeper role in “Parasite” (2019), won the Best Performance category at the award ceremony for the APSA in Gold Coast, Australia, Nov. 11, according to Finecut, a film distribution and sales company, Tuesday.She is the inaugural winner of the category, which has become ungendered starting this year, beating the four other nominees.Director of the film Shin Su-won, who took part in the APSA as a judge for the youth, animation and documentary section, received the award on behalf of Lee. Shin herself was also no

Nov 16, 2022By Kim Rahn
Lee Jung-eun wins best performance prize for 'Hommage' at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
K-pop

BLACKPINK, Seventeen win 2 awards each at MTV EMAs

K-pop girl group BLACKPINK / Courtesy of YG Entertainment By Kim RahnK-pop girl group BLACKPINK and boy band Seventeen have clinched two awards each at the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMAs). During the award ceremony held in Dusseldorf, Germany, Sunday (local time), BLACKPINK won the Best Metaverse Performance category for its virtual performance on PUBG Mobile, a virtual in-game concert held in the Battlegrounds mobile game. The four-piece act bagged a prize for the same category at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) held in New Jersey back in August.“We're so grateful to have won the EMA for Best Metaverse Performance this year. We had so much fun working on this project and we're so happy that our fans enjoyed it as much as we did,” the group said in its acceptance speech released through a video.BLACKPINK member Lisa also took the award for the Best K-Pop category.

Nov 14, 2022By Kim Rahn
BLACKPINK, Seventeen win 2 awards each at MTV EMAs
K-pop

2 members of TREASURE leave group

Members of K-pop boy band TREASURE pose in this February photo. Two of them, Mashiho and Bang Ye-dam, have left the group, according to its agency, YG Entertainment, Tuesday. YG EntertainmentBy Kim RahnK-pop act TREASURE has been reborn as a 10-member act, with two members leaving the group. The boy group's agency, YG Entertainment, said Tuesday that TREASURE, which debuted in 2020 as a 12-member group, will continue its activities with just 10 members ― Choi Hyun-suk, Jihoon, Yoshi, Junkyu, Yoon Jae-hyuk, Asahi, Doyoung, Haruto, Park Jeong-woo and So Jung-hwan. It added it terminated the contract with the two others, Mashiho and Bang Ye-dam, after a long discussion.“We've made the decision because Mashiho requires sufficient time for recovery due to a health issue, and Bang needs an environment to grow as a producer of unique musical character,” the agency said in a statement.In May of this year, the company announced that the two members will stop group activities, saying Bang would focus on studying music as he wished to strengthen his producing abilities while Japanes

Nov 9, 2022By Kim Rahn
2 members of TREASURE leave group
K-pop

K-pop singer BoA to return with 3rd mini-album

The teaser image of BoA's new mini-album, “Forgive Me” / Courtesy of SM Entertainment By Kim RahnSinger BoA will release a new mini-album later this month, according to the K-pop star's agency, SM Entertainment, Tuesday. Through the singer's official social network channels, the agency announced she would drop her third mini-album, titled “Forgive Me,” at 6 p.m. on Nov. 22. Reservations for the album at online and offline shops started Tuesday.A teaser image of BoA lying on a sofa of a studio was also disclosed.The new EP, with six tracks, will be the first release since her 10th full-length album, “BETTER,” in December 2020 which marked the 20 anniversary of her debut. Since then, BoA has been engaged in activities other than her solo career, such as being a part of “GOT the beat,” a unit of SM's female artist project Girls On Top (GOT), and participating as a judge in Mnet's dance competition show, “Street Man Fighter.”BoA, who debuted at the age of 14 in 2000, ha

Nov 8, 2022By Kim Rahn
K-pop singer BoA to return with 3rd mini-album
People & Events

Cartoonist Jeong Hun dies at 50

Cartoonist Jeong Hun, who had his cartoons carried by the Cine21 magazine for 25 years, died of leukemia, Saturday. YonhapBy Kim RahnCartoonist Jeong Hun, who had his cartoons carried in the movie magazine Cine21 every week for 25 years, died on Saturday. He was 50.He was diagnosed with acute leukemia at the end of 2021, according to his bereaved family. Jeong, who initially dreamed of becoming a soldier, began his career as a cartoonist after winning a rookie cartoonist contest in 1995 and getting an offer from a reporter of the magazine to draw cartoons parodying films.A poster parodying the 2002 film Chihwaseon by cartoonist Jeong Hun / Captured from Cine21 websiteFrom 1996 to 2020, Jeong's two-page cartoon on Cine21, titled “Jeong Huni Cartoon,” which was carried on almost the last page, was a must-see section of the weekly magazine, as readers enjoyed his parodies of movies which often contained satire directed toward then-governments and social issues.After 10 years of working for Cine21, he quit the serial and other cartoonists took over the section, but he came ba

Nov 7, 2022By Kim Rahn
Cartoonist Jeong Hun dies at 50
Arts & Theater

Star filmmakers' theatrical works draw rave reviews

Scenes from director Jang Hang-jun's play, “The Real Man Watanabe” / Courtesy of Insight EntertainmentBy Kim RahnTwo star filmmakers have returned to the theater stage with plays they offered more than a decade ago, receiving rave reviews and achieving high booking rates from anticipating fans.Director Jang Hang-jun's “The Real Man Watanabe” opened on Nov. 1 at Plus Theater in Daehangno, Seoul. The play premiered in 2010 as part of a series titled, “Directors Come to Stage,” in which four filmmakers presented plays.The play was Jang's theatrical debut, after directing the films, “Break Out” (2002) and “Forgotten” (2017). He had written and directed the play at the time of its premiere in 2010, and this time he took part in the project as its art director.“The Real Man Watanabe” revolves around a third-rate movie director named Man-chun who is nearly broke. He goes to Japan after getting an offer from a Korean-Japanese businessman named Watanabe, who wants to make his autobiographical film. Man-chun learns Watanab

Nov 5, 2022By Kim Rahn
Star filmmakers' theatrical works draw rave reviews
People & Events

Haegue Yang listed one of top 100 global artists

Artist Haegue Yang poses at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, in this 2018 photo. EPA-YonhapBy Kim RahnInstallation artist Yang Hae-gue, also stylized as Haegue Yang, is on the world's top 100 artist list this year as the only Korean, according to the Korea Art Authentication & Appraisal Research Center, Friday.The list, known as Kunst Kompass, is drawn up and announced by German-language business magazine Capital every year. The magazine selects the artists by assessing factors such as whether they have held private exhibitions at major museums and galleries around the world, if they have participated in major global art fairs, and whether renowned galleries own their artworks.Yang ranked 93rd, up from 99th last year. She is among four Asian artists on the list, with the other three being Ai Weiwei from China, and Yoko Ono and Hiroshi Sugimoto from Japan.Based in Seoul and Berlin, Yang, 51, was the main creator at the Korean Pavilion in the 2009 edition of the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first Asian female artist to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, and this Oct

Nov 4, 2022By Kim Rahn
Haegue Yang listed one of top 100 global artists
Entertainment

Itaewon crowd crush kills actor, ex-cheerleader

Actor Lee Ji-han, who died in Saturday's crowd crush in Itaewon, Seoul / Courtesy of 935 EntertainmentEntertainment industry in mourning By Kim RahnActor Lee Ji-han and former cheerleader Kim Yu-na died in Saturday's tragic crowd crush in Itaewon, Seoul.Lee's agency, 935 Entertainment, confirmed the 24-year-old's death, Monday. The death of Lee, who made his name known through Mnet's fan-vote survival show, “Produce 101,” season 2 (2017), was first disclosed the previous day through social network postings by other former participants of the show.“Our beloved actor Lee has left us,” the agency said in a release. “He was a kind and warmhearted person. We still remember him smiling to everyone he met, and it is unbelievable that we can't see this anymore.”The release did not mention the cause of his death, but the agency officials confirmed he was a victim of the Itaewon crowd crush.After “Produce 101,” Lee turned to acting and started his career by appearing in a web sitcom in 2019 where he played a high school student who is wild about

Oct 31, 2022By Kim Rahn
Itaewon crowd crush kills actor, ex-cheerleader
  • 1 middle schooler, 5 high school students killed in Itaewon crowd crush: education ministry
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