Sung Ryu is a Korean English translator who has called South Korea, the US, Canada, and Singapore home. Her translations include Tower by Bae Myung-hoon (Honford Star, 2021), Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung (Penguin Books, 2021), and I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young (cotranslated with Sophie Bowman, Harper Voyager, 2021).
Translation Folio
Spring 2023
The Aspiration for “Cha-Ka-Ta-Pa”
Though nobody believes this, the Isolation Lab run by my university’s history division does not lock up students. Its only aim is aiding unbiased historical research on a given era. […]