Background
Ri Ki-yong was born in Asan, Chunchongnam-do in of Korea.
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Ri Ki-Yong
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Ri attended the Seiisku School of English in Tokyo, Japan, He worked as a member of KAPF in 1925 and was the organizer of the Choson Proletarian Writers" Federation in Seoul as well as the leader of the North Choson Federation of Literature and Arts.
Career
He wrote under the name Minchon. 1926, he served as an editor of Light of Joseon (Joseon jigwang), an organ of the Korean Communist Party and a journal promoting proletarian literature. Ri Ki-yong spent more than two years in jail.
After liberation from Korean colonial rule, Ri moved to North of Korea where he was key in creating the orthodox position on literature in North of Korea, serving for several years in a key position in North Korean Federation of Literature and Arts.
He is reported to have died in August 1988.
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