Background
Kim Myeong-sun, who wrote under the pen-names Tansil(탄실;彈實) and Mangyangcho(망양초;望洋草) was born in Pyongyang in 1896.
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Kim Myeong-sun, who wrote under the pen-names Tansil(탄실;彈實) and Mangyangcho(망양초;望洋草) was born in Pyongyang in 1896.
Kim attended Chinmyeong Girl"s School in Seoul in 1908 where she was a good student, but she was subjected to slurs about her background and mistreatment from her step-mother"s family(Kim"s mother was a kisaeng).
Kim dropped out of school in 1911 and in 1913 left for Tokyo to study at Kojimachi"s Girl"s School. She did not complete her studies there, but instead returned to of Korea to earn her degree at Sungmyeon"s Girl"s School. In 1919 Kim joined the Creation group, of Korea"s first literary circle which was organized by Kim Dong-in and other Korean students in Tokyo.
She was once a reporter for the newspaper Maeil Shinmun.
Kim began to publish her poems in 1921, and from 1927 to 1930 she worked in cinema. Kim suffered from financial problems and succumbed to mental illness late in life.
Some sources allege that her mental illness was due to a love affair.