Background
Bang was born in 1961 in Ulsan of Korea, and has served as the president of Society of Young Writers Foreign Understanding Vietnam, and he continues to devote much of his creative energy to exploring Vietnam’s troubled past
Bang was born in 1961 in Ulsan of Korea, and has served as the president of Society of Young Writers Foreign Understanding Vietnam, and he continues to devote much of his creative energy to exploring Vietnam’s troubled past
His debut was in 1988 with "The Practice." Bang enrolled in the Chung-Ang University"s Department of Creative writing in 1980 and later, under an assumed identity, worked as a laborer in Incheon. After leaving the factory in 1994 Bang collected history and information on democratic labor unions, a collection that informed some of his work including Office to Battle a Dawn. Bang has worked as a creative writing professor at Chung-Ang University, on the editorial board of Silcheonmunhak, and as the editor-in-chief of Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature.
Quotations: “Number matter what, literature is life and nothing else,”.