Ahn Junghyo[a] (2 December 1941 – 1 July 2023) was a South Korean novelist and literary translator.
[3] Ahn Junghyo was born on 2 December 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a BA in English literature in 1965.
[4] Ahn made his debut as a translator in 1975, when he published a Korean translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which was serialized in the monthly Literature & The Intellect [ko].
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 Press in 1989 under the title The White Badge.