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Won-Chung Kim

Contributor

Won-Chung Kim

Won-Chung Kim is a professor of English literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea, where he teaches contemporary American poetry, ecological literature, and translation. He earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa in 1993. He has translated Kim Chiha's Heart's Agony and Choi Seungho's Flowers in the Toilet Bowl. He will soon publish translations of Chong Hyonjong's Trees of the World and an anthology of Korean ecological poets. He has also translated E. T. Seton's The Gospel of the Redman and Bernd Heinrich's In a Patch of Fireweed into Korean.

Articles by Won-Chung Kim

Underground Flower
By Ra Heeduk
There is an orchid that only blooms underground.
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
Cutting off a Finger
By Ra Heeduk
My mother's finger was cut off / by a slamming door.
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
How Far Does the Light
By Ra Heeduk
That pomegranate lives the same life,
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
Scale and Stairs
By Ra Heeduk
The child reflected in the black sheen of the piano
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
Crying over Light Green
By Ra Heeduk
No, the word “green” is hardly adequate.
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
Diary of the Fat Sofa
By Hwang Ji-woo
I enjoyed myself in style all day long on the sofa.
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
A Meal in This World
By Hwang Ji-woo
I felt she was cleaning out her life / and got angry at her for no reason.
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill
My Pond, My Sanitarium
By Hwang Ji-woo
I'd like to plunge naked into that tub of flowers / and emerge with a new life.
Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill