Winner of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea Grant, Peter N. Liptak (1969-) has lived, studied and worked in Seoul Korea for twenty years. After completing an MA in Korean Studies at Yonsei University, he authored more than thirty titles while working as a writer for the Korean government, Samsung, LG, and others. As a poet, Peter draws on Korea’s people, language and culture as a source of inspiration, linguistic and oth- erwise. Keen on dialect and borrowed words in language, he found a connection with Baek Seok and spent 15 years working on the translation of this heretofore untrans- lated collection as a tribute to the people of both North and South Korea, undivided in culture though long separated by war.