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Kim Neung-woo

كيم نونغ أو

Notable figure · Source: Launch of Korean translation of 6th-century Arabic poems, Aramco Korea (2024); Yun Eun-kyeong, «al-Lugha al-ʿarabiyya fi Kuriya», al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), p. 73 · Second source: The Yacoubian Building in Korean, trans. Kim Neung-woo (Eulyoo, 2011), Ridibooks catalogue page

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Korean translator of the Muʿallaqat and Yacoubian Building

Biography

A lecturer in Arabic language and literature at Seoul National University and a graduate of Hankuk's Arabic department. He translated Salwa Bakr's The Golden Chariot (2008) and Alaa al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building (2011), and most of the poems in the Korean edition of the Muʿallaqat (2024).