Choe Chan-sik

Choe Chan-sik was born in 1881 in Gwangju, in Gyeonggi, the son of Choe Yeong-nyeon, a journalist of the reform years. Trained in the Chinese classics, he entered in 1897 the school his father had founded to teach the new subjects, then the Hansung college in Seoul. In 1907 he translated a collection of novels published in Shanghai and turned to the new novel; he directed a magazine and was a reporter for periodicals. His novels, centred on the love affairs and marriages of young people, widened the field of modern fiction. He died in 1951.

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• Novel추월색Choe Chan-sik · 1912not translated into EnglishLiterature