10/06/2026
E.N.D. translation to Korean in process! 🇰🇷
We are pleased to announce that work on the Korean translation of "E.N.D.: Exploring Nuclear Disaster" has begun!
The translator herself – Rin Jeong – agreed to share her motives behind taking on this challenging Hermean task:
A Distinctly Korean E.N.D.
When I asked why E.N.D. would be translated into Korean first - of all languages, I thought - Elad said, “I have three places I want the book to be read in: Ukraine, Japan, and South Korea. All places that have been or currently are directly affected by the threat of a nuclear apocalypse.”
Today, South Korea faces at least two unique apocalyptic scenarios: nuclear war and extinction by population decline. Yet if you were to ask the average Korean what a nuclear strike from North Korea or the inevitable conclusion of rapid birth rate decline would actually look like, not many would be able to paint a vivid picture.
The decision to translate E.N.D. into Korean came from this recognition. Even though doom looms our politics and culture, there is a real lack of imagination for a fecund sense of the end. I believe that E.N.D. has a unique perspective to offer on how to imagine the end in radical, absolute terms, as implied by nuclear annihilation. In return, I foresee the book’s own discourse being enriched by the encounter with a distinctly Korean apocalypse.
Currently I am making headway with the sample translation, in close communication with the authors. There is, on my part, a great joy in the creativity that comes from translation, in recreating the relations a word has in its original context into a new environment.
