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Meet Gene Png, the Singaporean translating South Korean feminist bestsellers into English
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Singaporean translator Gene Png translated South Korean bestsellers like The Legend Of Lady Byeoksa into English.
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SINGAPORE – With five books of Korean-language fiction released or forthcoming in her first year of being a full-time published translator, 30-year-old Singaporean Gene Png has quickly carved a niche for herself involving gender-bending demon slayers and manifestos of transgressive women.
“I just wanted all my books to feature bad-a** female protagonists,” says Png, who started teaching herself Korean when she was an 18-year-old fan of K-pop sensation BTS.
