[56th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Fiction Commendation Award winner Adelle Wee Xing Min

Among the five winners of the 56th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, Adelle Wee Xing Min stands out for her singular focus and dedication to literary translation. A Singaporean student at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s (LTI Korea) Translation Academy in Seoul, Wee is an aspiring literary translator. Before entering the academy, she earned her master’s degree in Korean-English translation from Ewha Womans University, following an undergraduate degree in linguistics. Her dream of becoming a literary translator began modestly through fan translation work in the K-pop community. “I actually started out doing fansubs and translating social media posts for an idol group I really liked,” Wee recalled. “There were only a couple of fan translators because the fan base was really small, and fans would have to wait hours and sometimes days before they could read an accurate English translation. So I started subtitling and translating their content to try to shorten the wait time and bridge the gap between non-Korean-speaking fans and the idols they loved so mucWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times