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She was born in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea. Translator (Japanese-Korean), Poet.
She has translated many Japanese literary works into Korean and many Korean literary works into Japanese. This work includes more than 200 volumes, such as poems, novels, essays, poem anthologies, books for children, humanity books, self-enlightenment books and scientific books. In particular, she has translated many poems and books of Poetry between Korea and Japan.
Korean textbooks used in Korean high schools contain several of her translations for educational purposes.
She has translated and introduced Korean and Japanese poems in various literary magazines between the two countries since 1990.
Then, from 1990 to 2000, she selected the poems of representative poets in Korea and Japan and published four anthologies in Korean and Japanese, respectively. She translated all of these anthologies into Korean and Japanese by herself. Whenever her anthologies were published, Korean and Japanese poets held international literary seminars and poetry festivals together, all of which she hosted. In addition to that, she worked as an interpreter and translator for several major literary festivals between Korea, China, and Japan.
Among them, she took charge of all literary events, including translation and interpretation, for four occasions, including the Korea, China, and Japan Poetry Festival and the International Literature Festival, which were held in time for the 23rd Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018.

She translated Korean poetry into Japanese, and for the first time in over 100 years since modern literature began in Asia, Korean poetry and Korean literature have been widely introduced in major Japanese newspapers, including Japan's Asahi Newspaper. In particular, her Japanese translation made the poet Ahn Do-hyun widely known in Japan. In addition, essays were serialized daily for three months in Nishi-Nippon Paper, a major Japanese newspaper, which was also a first in Japan.
And among the books she selected and translated into Korean, A Liter of Tears, If the World Was a Village of 100 People, and Another Roman Story became bestsellers, selling about 1 million copies.
And to train translators, she gave lectures in the ‘Japanese translator’s training course’ from 2010 to 2014 at the ‘Hankyoreh Cultural Center’ of the Hankyoreh newspaper.
She served as an adjunct professor of Japanese studies in the Department of International and Regional Studies at the Graduate School of Policy Science at Sejong University, and is currently an adjunct professor at Sejong Cyber University.