KoreaTimes(262) - Translation Award, Lifestyle, page 1

The Korea Times

Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn
Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn

Lifestyle

Translation Award

Thu, November 14, 2019 | 00:30

The Korea Times celebrates 50th anniversary of annual translation awards

The Korea Times celebrates 50th anniversary of annual translation awards

The Korea Times, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KB Financial Group, hosted the 50th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, Wednesday evening, at the Press Center in central Seoul, presenting prizes to the winners. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the awards aiming to bridge the gap between Korean literature and global reader...

Anna J. Park | 2019-11-13 22:24

Poetry Commendation Prize Winners: Yoo Ji-young, Clarque Brown

Poetry Commendation Prize Winners: Yoo Ji-young, Clarque Brown

Born and raised in Seoul, Yoo Ji-young went to the U.S. at the age of 16 to study. She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in sociology and South Asian Studies. After spending some time as a sales manager, she now teaches English at a local institute. Clarque Brown grew up in Florida in the U.S., and earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Amherst College ...

Anna J. Park | 2019-11-12 22:06

Poetry Commendation Prize: Fifty Meters

Poetry Commendation Prize: Fifty Meters

A poor-hearted man lives as a boy and contracts everlasting longingNot even fifty meters had I gone before I remembered you. My regret couldn't wait for fifty meters to pass and managed to restore you. Rumor has it that one can be so blessed as to forget just by turning away, but I was given no such blessing. Unblessed, in less than fifty meters, I began thinking of all that ...

2019-11-12 21:59

Poetry Commendation Prize Winners: Yoo Ji-young, Clarque Brown

Fiction Commendation Prize Winner: Jasmine Jeemin Lee

Fiction Commendation Prize Winner: Jasmine Jeemin Lee

Jasmine Jeemin Lee is a freelance Korean-English translator and interpreter. She grew up moving back and forth between Korea and the U.S., and graduated from Ewha Womans University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation earlier this year. Having been always an avid reader, she began to translate literary works during graduate school: “I was fascinated by literary t...

Anna J. Park | 2019-11-12 21:51

Fiction Commendation Prize: Still Days

Fiction Commendation Prize: Still Days

The Sunday before my first day of work, I ran into Jaehwa at Daehangno Street. It was a cloudy afternoon, chilly and windy. I was twenty-six, and I had moped about in my studio flat until my head started to fill with so many useless thoughts about the next day that I had to go out for some air. I thought I might walk to Marronnier Park and do some window shopping. I'll talk t...

2019-11-12 21:43

Fiction Commendation Prize Winner: Jasmine Jeemin Lee

Fiction Commendation Prize Winner: Grace Payer

Fiction Commendation Prize Winner: Grace Payer

Grace Payer grew up in Iowa, the United States and spent her middle school years in Korea. Later she studied at the University of Minnesota where she studied Korean, among other subjects. She is currently studying sociology at Seoul National University in Korea.

Anna J. Park | 2019-11-12 21:35

Fiction Commendation Prize: Burial

Fiction Commendation Prize: Burial

It begins like this: We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. Or, like this: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do. Or, like this: eating an American breakfast; thinly sliced cabbage and tomato, a thick beef patty, all stacked on a white bun; eating something g...

2019-11-12 21:32

Fiction Commendation Prize Winner: Grace Payer

Grand Prize Winner: Leo-Thomas Brylowski

Grand Prize Winner: Leo-Thomas Brylowski

Growing up in Montreal, Canada, Leo-Thomas Brylowski is fluent in both English and French as his mother-tongues. During his undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), he spent two semesters at Seoul National University as an exchange student. Brylowski is now on a fellowship program at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea's (LTIK) Translation ...

Anna J. Park | 2019-11-12 21:25

Fiction Grand Prize Award: 'Choe Mijin, Where Have You Gone?'

Fiction Grand Prize Award: 'Choe Mijin, Where Have You Gone?'

It all began around the middle of last month, while I was looking to buy myself an external hard drive. I accessed a classifieds website for second-hand merchandise, and that's when I stumbled upon someone who was selling a book of mine, a novel I'd published two years earlier. It had been put up for sale at a bargain price by an active member with the username “James Closeth...

2019-11-12 21:22

Grand Prize Winner: Leo-Thomas Brylowski

[50th Korea Times Translation Awards] Judges' Report

[50th Korea Times Translation Awards] Judges' Report

This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Korea Times Translation Awards, a singular achievement in the annals of the translation of modern Korean literature. Back in 1969, the inaugural year of the award, South Korea was still recovering from war and had yet to grow into the economic and cultural powerhouse it is today. In the half-century that followed, the Korea Times Tr...

2019-11-12 21:13

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Top 10 Stories

DARKROOM

Code of Ethics

Copyright