Jung Yewon

Jung Yewon is a South Korean translator of contemporary Korean-language fiction into English. Her translations include One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jung-eun and No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin (2013). In 2011, Jung won the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award for her English translation of Jung Young-moon's short story A Way of Remembrance. Her subsequent translation of Jung Young-moon's Vaseline Buddha was awarded the 2017 LTI Korea Translation Award.

Early life and education Jung was born in Seoul but, at the age of 12, she moved to the USA. She holds a BA in English from Brigham Young University, Utah, and a master's degree from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University in Seoul.

Translations

A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by Jung Young-moon (ISBN: 9781564789167), translated with Inrae You Vinciguerra and Louis Vinciguerra, Dalkey Archive, 2013 No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin (ISBN: 9781564789600), Dalkey Archive, 2013 Vaseline Buddha by Jung Young-moon (ISBN: 9781941920343), Deep Vellum, 2016 One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun (ISBN: 9781911284024), Tilted Axis, 2016 Mannequin by Choe Yun (ISBN: 9781628971521), Dalkey Archive, 2016 Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young-moon (ISBN: 9781941920855), Deep Vellum, 2019 The Only Child by Mi-ae Seo (ISBN: 9781786078551), Oneworld Publications, 2020 The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung (ISBN: 9781739822569), Honford Star, 2023 The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun (ISBN: 9781915829030), Honford Star, 2024 Shift by Cho Yeeun (ISBN: 9781915829344), Honford Star, 2026