Background
Kye Yong-mook, was born Ha Taeyong on September 8, 1904, in Seoncheon, Pyeonganbuk-do, of Korea.
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Kye was educated at Sambong Public Normal School and took his collegiate education at Toyo University in Japan.
Career
Kye"s first published work was the poem “The Shattered Schoolroom” (Geulbang-i kkae-eojyeo) which was published in the youth magazine New Voice (Sae sori) in 1920. Kye transferred his attention to short fiction with the publication in 1927 of (Choi seobang) in Joseon Literary World (Joseon mundan), after which he never returned to writing poetry. Like many authors of the era including Yi Sang, he was imprisoned by the Japanese colonial government in August 1943 on charges of “displaying inadequate reverence for the emperor.”After Korean Liberation, Kye struggled to maintain a non-partisan position in the atmosphere of growing ideological strife in the Korean literary world.
Kye died in 1961 in the middle of serializing the novel Seolsujip in the journal Contemporary Literature (Hyeondae munhak).
His story, Adata the Idiot, was also made into a movie by director Im Kwon-taek.
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South Korean