Background
Chang was born in Hamyeong Buk-do in what is now North of Korea.
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Chang Yong-hak
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Education
He studied at Waseda University in Japan, before being drafted into the Japanese army.
Career
After the end of World War Two, he taught high school in of Korea, writing fiction on the side. His short story, translated as "The Poems of John the Baptist" (available in English translation in Ten Korean Short Stories, edited by Ken O"Rouke, 1993), was a critical success in of Korea. Chang has been characterized as an idea novelist influenced by Sartre and philosophical ideas both Oriental and Occidental and as a writer of fantasy.
