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Baek Se-hee and Anton Hur

Talking tteokbokki and therapy with Baek Se-hee and BTS translator Anton Hur

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For this Straits Times video, Korean author Baek Se-hee and translator Anton Hur reflect on the global success and universal resonance of I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) and discuss the current state of mental health in East Asian countries in their first joint interview.

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Baek Se-hee

Anton Hur

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Straits Times

interview

2025

Anton Hur on Translating Literature

Pro Translator Explains Translating the Korean Sci-Fi Novel COUNTERWEIGHT | Building a Book

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“I’m not there to serve the author or serve the text, I’m there to interpret it.” In this video, writer and translator Anton Hur speaks about the role of the translator, Korean literature, and his work on the novel Counterweight (Pantheon, 2023) by the pseudonymous South Korean science fiction author Djuna.

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