The power of translation behind the Han River Nobel Prize...It's a delicate style. [Anchor Report]

Han Kang's rise to the ranks of the world's top writers was also attributed to meeting a great translator who broke down the language barrier.

Let's take a look at the screen together now, the first contributor to promoting Han River's work to the world.

Back in 2016, it was when Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize, one of the world's top three literary awards, for being a vegetarian.

The woman next to me is Deborah Smith, an English translator.

He was only 28 years old at the time.

Smith studied English literature at Cambridge University and started learning Korean by himself in 2010.

Three years after learning Korean, he fell in love with the charm of a vegetarian and was in charge of not only translation but also contacting and promoting publishers.

Smith's translation, which studied Korean by searching through dictionaries for each word, is characterized by a concise and respect for diversity in interpretation.

So, it creates synergy when it meets works that use poetic and ideological styles like the Han River.

In particular, he is a translator who uses Korean words as they are rather than solving them.

For example, you are against using soju as Korean vodka, cartoons as Korean Manga, and other cultures.

Han Kang's translation of another work, 'The Boy Is Coming,' also said that he used the words "brothers, sisters, and so on."

In response to Smith's translation, Han Kang also expressed his gratitude, saying, "I was lucky to have met a good translator," saying, "He is a very literary person who is devoted to his work."

The translator's efforts to make the world known to the world of the artist more than anyone else were hidden in the fact that Korean works, which had been a periphery of Asia, had crossed the threshold of the Nobel Prize for Literature.