Bruce occupies the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-translator, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of numerous works of modern Korean fiction, most recently The Catcher in the Loft by Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng (2019), One Left by Kim Soom (2020), and Togani by Gong Ji-Young (2023); co-recipient, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of the first U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for a Korean literary work; recipient of the Manhae Grand Prize in Literature; and editor of The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories (2023).
