The Korea Times awarded prizes to winners of its 42nd Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards at a ceremony held at Seoul Plaza Hotel, Wednesday.

Attending the awards ceremony were, among others, President-Publisher Park Moo-jong of the Korea Times, Park Je-yeong, chief operating officer of the Korea Exchange Bank, which sponsors the annual translation contest, and judges including Brother Anthony.

Grand Prize winner Jung Ye-won, who translated Jung Young-moon’s “A Way of Remembrance,” and Charse Yun and Koh Hyo-jin, winners of the commendation awards for their respective translations of Kim Hoon’s “Rivers and Mountains Without End” attended the ceremony. Patricia Park who also won the commendation award for translating Yoon Sung-hee’s “Hole” however was absent as she is currently in the United States.

All were winners in the fiction category; there was no winner from the poetry category.

See: The Korean Times