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[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Commendation Award: To Unfold a Bird

Written by Lee Su-myeong Translated by Noh Hye-yeon To Unfold a Bird A bird followed by hundreds of birds. I pass through the hundred-fold bird, without disturbance. The birds are seething. I move myself. I move a rock. The birds enter the rock, leave the rock. I move the rock against the direction of bird, while they watch How to Fall Under the Minari Family Every morning I wake minari. I hover as minari. I see a function f I do not understand. In theory, I follow the rhythms of minari standing still as exception. A lump of rhythms in the shape of minari Rhythm outside rhythm Rhythm is no abode Rhythm is most of me blended into it, therefore I push myself aside Pulled apart, blade by blade I break into today’s minari and try to repair minari, but a machine only wants a larger machine to smash itself, rather than become the machine itself. Minari leaps into the minari family The minari family grows smaller And smells foul on occasion. Into the hollow leaf Fly the great bundles of minari I wake minari. In the mechanical arrangement, most minari are nothing beyond minari Muddled, it looms. I Have Y

Nov 10, 2026
[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Commendation Award: There Was a Fire

Written by An Hee-yeon Translated by Park Se-yeon There Was a Fire He figured the day had turned chill, and also felt a bit alone. Today, I'll light a fire, he thought. He laid dry sticks together and lit them. Fire, rise, fire— he hummed a song, he dreamed of a fire that would not hurt, not a fire that devours but the one that allows, not a fire that scorches but the one that allows. Even here, he said, there was a home, and people arrived one by one. Once the cold hands came out from their pockets, that's how stories began— palm lines crisscrossing, without our noticing. The sun and the moon tenderly exchanged goodbye, beyond the fence, the weeds were growing, a stray dog retrieved its soul, returning home, while not-yet-born me— the self that died inside, I lulled and fell asleep. The fire—extinguished long ago— but certain things did not cease. The fire hadn't hushed, not even a little. Fuss Covered head to toe in flour, I stepped into the square to bring my sorrow into view. Yesterday, I hid my umbrella in my bag and took the rain on, to proclaim: I do not shatter. I do not disintegr

Nov 10, 2026
[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Kevin O'Rourke Award: Giraffe Is the Name of the World

Written by Danyao Translated by Ku Bon-seung Excerpt from 'Giraffe Is the Name of the World' The story I am about to tell is of the Giraffe, and also of myself. If I were asked to name the animals familiar to me, would name the meerkat that swivels its head this way and that from behind a rock, and the hyena whose eyes curve into a grin when it opens its mouth to tear at its prey, and the jackal whose ears and face and thighs and tail and every part of its body are triangles. And if I were to name the animals unfamiliar to me, I would recite the memory of slipping quietly past the shadows of lion and rhinoceros and hippopotamus. As for the plants, I would call to mind the acacia that spreads its branches like the cap of a mushroom, and the ebony blacker than the night sky, and the gloriosa flower that soars as though aflame. Should you wish for something more amusing, I would tell you that the baobab's branches are stunted, as though a great weight had pressed them down, because the tree grew its thick trunk upward without knowing how low the sky hung and realized only too late that ther

Nov 10, 2026
[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Fiction Grand Prize: How to Get Your Deposit Back

Written by Cho Ye-eun Translated by Breanna Hundley Excerpt from 'How to Get Your Deposit Back' Security deposit: 30 million won Monthly rent: 550,000 won Maintenance fee: 150,000 won (not included in rent) There were just under two months left until Seongah’s lease ended. She had given the landlord notice about two weeks before, which legally, was more than enough time to prepare for the vacancy. So there wasn’t anything in the way of getting her deposit back. At least, there shouldn’t have been. That’s for sure. * * * Seongah had received a call from her family in the countryside the day before. Her mom informed her that her little brother needed to be enrolled in cram school and asked her to send 5 million won as soon as her deposit was returned. That was how much she had borrowed from her mother, so she couldn’t really say no. Seongah just replied, “Okay,” before ending the call. The deposit budget for her next place was now down to 25 million won, which meant an increased chance of moving into an apartment with mold on the wallpaper or warped windows that had been illegall

Nov 10, 2026
[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Commendation Award winner Noh Hye-yeon

For Noh Hye-yeon, returning to poetry began with opening old files and rediscovering a pleasure that corporate work and anxiety over artificial intelligence had pushed aside. An in-house translator at an automotive company, Noh spent this summer revisiting poems by Lee Su-myeong that she had first translated in graduate school. Revising them brought her back to the literary ambitions she had struggled to sustain. “Flipping through my Roget’s Thesaurus again, I realized just how much I was enjoying translation and how much I’d missed it,” Noh said in a written interview with The Korea Times. “For the first time in a long while, I was doing something that genuinely brought me joy.” Her translations of 10 poems by Lee won the poetry Commendation Award in this year’s Korea Times Literature Translation Awards. The recognition follows her fiction Grand Prize in the competition in 2023. In the intervening years, however, her confidence in a future as a literary translator had faltered. “The arrival of GPT felt like a natural disaster to me as a translator,” she said. Noh continu

Nov 10, 2026
[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Judges' report

The Korea Times' 57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards entries demonstrate the growing range of voices and talent within the world of Korean literature, and the translators who, with their passion, commitment and creativity, bring these voices to life for a greater reading public. Our discussions focused on how to balance the choices that a translator made, from larger decisions to finer details. We gave serious consideration to the translator’s selection of which texts to translate, both in terms of selecting more challenging texts, as well as texts that we considered to have greater literary merit within their genre. When it came to our final candidates, we considered more closely the translator’s ear for the music of the target language, the fluency of the translation ranging from phrasing, tone, diction and general grammatical structure of sentences, and in the case of poetry, other specific elements such as line breaks. We also weighed each text’s themes and social concerns, in terms of how the texts might reflect the unique nature of a translation award focused

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