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South Korean Literature
:''See also Culture of South Korea, Korean literature until 1945, and North Korean literature'' South Korean literature is literature written or produced in South Korea following the division of Korea into North and South in 1945. South Korean literature is primarily written in Korean, though English loanwords are prevalent. Literature by genre Mainstream fiction Also referred as 'pure literature' in South Korea. Most authors translated by the Korea Literature Translation Institute for translation falls into this category. The terminology is often criticized, and is a constant theme of discussion in the literature of South Korea. *Ahn Soo-kil (1911-1977)(안수길) * Eun Hee-kyung (1959~)(은희경) * Seong Seok-jae (1961~)(성석제) *Park Mingyu (1968~)(박민규) *Choi Il-nam (1932~)(최일남) * Kim Jae-young (1966~)(김재영) *Bang Young-ung (1942~)(방영웅) * Bok Geo-il (1946~)(복거일) * Cho Se-hui (1942~)(조세희) * Park Beom-shin (1946~)(박범신) * Kim So-j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of South Korea
The contemporary culture of South Korea developed from the traditional culture of Korea which was prevalent in the early Korean nomadic tribes. By maintaining thousands of years of ancient Korean culture, with influence from ancient Chinese culture, South Korea split on its own path of cultural development away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1948. The industrialization, urbanization and westernization of South Korea, especially Seoul, have brought many changes to the way Korean people live. Changing economics and lifestyles have led to urbanization—a concentration of population in major cities (and depopulation of the rural countryside), with multi-generational households separating into nuclear family living arrangements. Today, many cultural elements from South Korea, especially popular culture, have spread across the globe and have become some of the most prominent cultural forces in the world. Literature Prior to the 20th century, Korean literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Young-ung
Bang Young-ung (20 July 1942 – 31 August 2022) was a South Korean novelist whose works focus on affectionately portraying the lives of ordinary people in contemporary South Korea. Life Bang Yeong-ung was born on 20 July 1942 in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-doo. He graduated from Whimoon High School and made his debut with “The Story of Bullye”, published in the journal Creation and Criticism (Changjak gwa bipyeong) in 1967. Bang died on 31 August 2022, at the age of 80. Work Bang made his literary debut in 1968 with the novel ''The Story of Bullye'' (분례기) which was also made into a movie. Later novels include ''Moon'' (달, 1971), ''Stone Driven In and Stone Pulled Out'' (박힌돌과 뽑힌돌, 1980), and ''Keumjo Mountain'' (금조산, 1992). His early work focuses on rural life, but in the 1970s he shifted toward town and city milieux. Bang deals with the lives of lower middle-class and working-class Koreans. His works from 1960s tend to be set in rural communities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gong Seon-ok
Gong Seon-ok (born 1963) is a modern South Korean writer. Life Gong was born in Gokseong County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Her father, who abandoned the family early on, led a wandering existence in order to evade creditors, and her mother suffered from weak health. Although Gong was accepted into university, she was ultimately forced to leave because she could not afford the tuition and made a living by working as a factory hand and long-distance express bus attendant. Work Gong portrays traditional life in rural areas in reflection of her hometown in the southern Jeolla province Gong debuted in 1991 with her novella "Seeds of Fire." Gong's female characters reside at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, including the girl in "That’s Life," a squatter living in a freezing derelict apartment building without heat or electricity who ultimately loses her life in a butane gas accident. The city of Gwangju is another reoccurring motif in Gong's work. Her husband is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Won-il
Kim Won-il (born 1942) is a South Korean writer. Life Kim Won-il was born on March 15, 1942 in Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do. Kim was only a child when his father, a communist activist, defected to the North during the Korean War. The father left his wife and four children behind, to a legacy of great poverty and a cloud of ideological suspicion. Kim attended Daegu Agriculture High School, and holds bachelor's degrees from Sorabol College of Arts and Yeungnam University and a master's degree in Korean Literature from Dankook University. He made his literary debut in 1966 when his short story “Algeria, 1961” was chosen as the winner of a contest sponsored by Daegu Daily News. The following year, his story “A Festival of Darkness” (Eodumui chukje) was selected for publication in Contemporary Literature (Hyeondae munhak). As of 2013, Kim works in the Creative Writing Department at Sunchon National University, where he works with Korean poet Kwak Jae-gu. Work With this ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Gui-ja
Yang Gwija (born 1955) () is a South Korean writer. Life Yang Gwija was born July 1, 1955, in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do and graduated from Wonkwang University in 1978 with a degree in Korean Literature. She later moved to Seoul after her marriage in 1980. Yang made her literary debut with the short stories ''Starting a New Morning'' and ''The Door Already Closed''. In 1986 she achieved popular success with the release of her collection of linked short stories () Neighbors in Wonmi-dong, for which she is still most famous. This collection was a painstaking depiction of the lives of people on the periphery of industrial culture. In 1988 Yang won the Fifth Yoo Juhyoen Literature award and followed up by winning the even more prestigious Lee Sang Literature Award in 1992. As the 1990s turned into a consumer culture in Korea, and a mood of disillusionment replaced the political (and to some extent economic) hope that had characterized the nation. Yang's work followed along. In 1992 she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Young-ha
Young-ha Kim(c. November 11, 1968) is a modern South Korean writer. Life Kim was born in Hwacheon on November 11, 1968. He moved from place to place as a child, since his father was in the military. As a child, he suffered from gas poisoning from coal gas and lost memory before ten. He was educated at Yonsei University in Seoul, earning undergraduate as well as graduate degrees in Business Administration from Yonsei University, but he didn't show much interest in it. Instead he focused on writing stories. Kim, after graduating from Yonsei University in 1993, began his military service as an assistant detective at the military police 51st Infantry Division near Suwon. His career as a professional writer started in 1995 right after discharge when his short-story ''A Meditation On Mirror'' (Geoure daehan myeongsang) appeared in Review, and the following year, won the 1st New Writer's Award given by Munhak Dongne with the novel, ''I Have a Right to Destroy Myself'' (Naneun nareu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Yeon-su
Kim Yeonsu (The romanization preferred by the author according to LTI Korea) (; born 1970) is a South Korean writer. Life Kim Yeonsu was born in Kimcheon, Kyeongsangbuk-do in 1970. He graduated with a degree in English literature from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. After graduation, Kim was an office worker by day, a translator at night, and spent the remainder of his time writing novels. In 1997, Kim worked as a reporter for a woman's magazine, and this experience was also key to his outlook that daily life is difficult. Work Kim made his debut in 1993 with a poem in the journal ''Jakka Segye'' (Writer's World) and the next year published a novel ''Walking While Pointing to the Mask'' (Gamyeon-eul Gariki-myeo Geotgi). He is one of the most well-received Korean writers since 2000, and also a best-selling author in Korea. For example, his work ''World’s End Girlfriend,'' published in 2009, sold 40,000 copies in less than three months of publication. Kim's literary world i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Hoon
Kim Hoon is a South Korean novelist, journalist and critic. Life Kim was born on May 5, 1948, in Seoul, Korea. After graduating from Whimoon High School, Kim Hoon entered Korea University in 1966. He joined Hankook Ilbo as a journalist in 1973. He made his debut as a novelist at the age of forty-seven with the publication of ''Memories of Earthenware with Comb Teeth Pattern''. His second novel. ''Song of the Sword'' (), which was awarded the prestigious Dong-in Literature Prize, was a literary sensation and elevated him into one of the most recognized names in Korean literature. Two years later in 2003, Kim's reputation as a writer of exceptional talent was affirmed when his first published short-story “Cremation” was chosen as the winner of Lee Sang Literature Prize. Kim worked as a journalist for 20 years before becoming a writer and is well known for refusing to use anything but a pencil when he writes. He is also an avid bicyclist who does not have a driver's license an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahn Junghyo
Ahn Junghyo (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean novelist and literary translator."안정효" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Life He was born December 2, 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a BA in English literature in 1965. He worked as an English-language writer for the ''Korea Herald'' in 1964, and later served as a director for the ''Korea Times'' in 1975-1976. He was Editorial Director for the Korean Division of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' from 1971 to 1974. He made his debut as a translator in 1975, when he published a Korean translation of '' One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which was serialized in the monthly '. From that time until the late 1980s, he translated approximately 150 foreign works into Korean. Work His first novel was ''Of War and the Metropolis'', now known as ''White War'' (''하얀전쟁' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwang Sok-yong
Hwang Sok-yong (born January 4, 1943) is a South Korean novelist. Life Hwang was born in Hsinking (today Changchun), Manchukuo, during the period of Japanese rule. His family returned to Korea after liberation in 1945. He later obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Dongguk University(동국대학교). Hwang has been an avid reader of a wide range of literature and he wanted to become a writer since childhood. In 1964 he was jailed for political reasons and met labor activists. Upon his release he worked at a cigarette factory and at several construction sites around the country. In 1966~1969 he was part of the Republic of Korea Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, reluctantly fighting for the American cause that he saw as an attack on a liberation struggle: In Vietnam he was responsible for "clean-up," erasing the proof of civilian massacres and burying the dead. A gruesome experience in which he was constantly surrounded by corpses that were gnawed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Moo-sook
Han Moo-sook (1918-1993) () was a South Korean writer. Her name may also be rendered in English as "Han Musuk", "Han Moo-suk", "Han Musook", "Mu-suk Han" or "Han Mu-suk". Life Han Moo-sook was born October 25, 1918 in Seoul and graduated from Pusan Girls’ High School. She initially studied fine arts but switched to literature after she married Kim Zin-hoong in 1941.Collected Short Stories From Korea She has five children. Active in literary and artistic circles as well, Han Moo-sook held various posts, serving as the director of Korean P.E.N. Club, the National Museum of Korea, and Korean Women Writers’ Assembly. Han died in 1993. Han Moo-sook was a reclusive housewife who "whisked away" the first prize in a novel writing contest in the early 1941 After that she traveled from one literary triumph to another. Han received first prizes in drama competitions with a one-act play, ''Heart'', in 1943 and a four-act play, ''Frost Flowers'', in 1944. In 1948, in a competition sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim So-jin
Kim So-jin (born 1979) is a South Korean actress. She is known for playing a prosecutor in crime drama '' The King'' (2017), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Blue Dragon Film Award, Grand Bell Award and Baeksang Arts Award The Baeksang Arts Awards (), also known as the Paeksang Arts Awards, are awards for excellence in film, television and theatre in South Korea. The awards were first introduced in 1965 by Chang Key-young, the founder of the Hankook Ilbo newspap ... for Best Supporting Actress. Filmography Film Television series Web series Television shows Theater Awards and nominations Notes References External links * * * Kim So-jin at PlayDB {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, So-jin 1979 births Living people Chung-Ang University alumni South Korean television actresses South Korean film actresses South Korean stage actresses 21st-century South Korean actresses Korea National University of Arts alumni catego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
