Ahn Junghyo

Ahn Junghyo (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean novelist and literary translator.
Life.
He was born December 2, 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a BA in English literature in 1965. He worked as an English-language writer for the "Korea Herald" in 1964, and later served as a director for the "Korea Times" in 1975-1976. He was Editorial Director for the Korean Division of "Encyclopædia Britannica" from 1971 to 1974.
He made his debut as a translator in 1975, when he published a Korean translation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which was serialized in the monthly "". From that time until the late 1980s, he translated approximately 150 foreign works into Korean.
Work.
His first novel was "Of War and the Metropolis", now known as "White War" ("하얀전쟁"), which was published in 1983 to a chilly critical reception. It discussed his experiences as a Republic of Korea Army soldier in the Vietnam War. He translated it into English and had it published in the United States, where it was released by SoHo Publishing in 1989 under the title "The White Badge". In 1992 it was also made into a film, "White Badge", shot on location in Vietnam. The book was then reissued in Korea as "White War" in 1993, and was received much more favorably than before.