LTI Korea 
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Translator
Sarah K. H. Yoo
Sarah K. H. Yoo is a translator and writer based in Korea. She was the 2024/25 Korean mentee in the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorships and a Korean delegate for the 2025/26 International Literature Exchange. Her work has appeared in Litbreak Magazine and Asymptote Journal, among others.
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Translator
Sean Lin Halbert
Sean Lin Halbert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University, where he also received his MA. In 2018, he won the GKL Translation Award, the LTI Korea Award for Aspiring Translators, and the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award. His translations include Kim Un-su’s Cabinet (Angry Robot, 2021) and Ewhan Kim’s Black Orb (MIRA, 2024). He lives in Seoul and teaches at LTI Korea Translation Academy.
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Writer
Sung Hyunah
Sung Hyunah is a literary critic and visiting professor of creative writing at Dankook University. She launched her career in 2021 by winning prizes in the criticism category of both the Kyunghyang Daily News New Writer’s Contest and the Chosun Ilbo New Writer’s Contest. She has contributed to the books The Poem That Has Yet to Come, Reading Han Kang, and A Witch’s Reading, a Madwoman’s Dance.
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Translator
Sunnie Chae
Sunnie Chae is a literary and media translator based in Seoul. She teaches at Ewha Womans University and has served as a pilot educator for Words Without Borders Campus. Her work has appeared in Words Without Borders and The Massachusetts Review. Her recent media translations include Kim Jong-kwan’s feature films Frosted Window (2025) and Day and Night (2026).
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Writer
Eun Kyung Min
Eun Kyung Min is a critic, translator, and professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University. A specialist in eighteenth-century British literature, she has a longstanding interest in how texts travel in the global eighteenth century. Her most recent monograph is China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690-1770 (Cambridge University Press, 2018); her essay “Thomas Percy and the Romantic Origins of World Literature” is forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature (2026). She has also published on Korean and Korean American Literature. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Korean Literature Now.
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Translator
Yung In Chae
Yung In Chae is a writer, editor, translator, and PhD candidate in history at Yale University. Her work has appeared in publications including The Yale Review, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement.
