Yeun-hee Chung Author

Yeun-hee Chung, born in 1936 in Seoul. She has since published several novels and numerous short stories and essays. Ms. Chung has received numerous literary awards, including the Korean Literary Writers Award. An important and influential contemporary Korean writer, her writing focuses on the inner strength and virtue displayed by ordinary people. Hyun-jae Yee Sallee has been translating Korean literature nearly twenty-five years. White Pine Press has two published two previous collections of her translations. Ms. Sallee was the recipient of a translation award from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation in 1989.