Chon Young-ae

Chon Young-Ae (Korean: 전영애; pronounced [tɕʌn. jʌŋ.ɛ]; born 1951) is a literary scholar and poet from South Korea. She is an honorary professor emeritus in the Department of German Language and Literature at Seoul National University, specializing in German poetry. She held the position of department head from 2005 to 2007. She also served as the president of the Korean Goethe Society from 2006 to 2008. Furthermore, in recognition of her contributions to numerous translations of German literature to the Korean language, she was appointed as the Director of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea in 2012. Apart from her academic achievements, Chon has been recognized as an accomplished poet as well. She published six volumes of poetry, including some written in German. Her most notable accomplishment is translating all of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poems into Korean in 2009, which earned her the Golden Goethe Medal from the Weimar Goethe Society in 2011. Chon is currently working on developing a community known as "Goethe Village".