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Jeon Gwang-yong

Died in 1988

Jeon Gwang-yong was born in 1919 in Bukcheong, in South Hamgyong. He entered the department of Korean language and literature at Seoul National University in 1947, took his doctorate there in 1973 and taught there until 1984, having previously taught at Sookmyung High School and Duksung University. He made his debut in 1955 by winning the Chosun Ilbo short story contest. According to the Literature Translation Institute, he was called the writer who wrote with his feet, because he went to the places of his stories. He died on 21 June 1988.

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