Kim Yu-jeong

Died in 1937

Kim Yu-jeong was born in Chuncheon, in Gangwon, in 1908, the son of a wealthy landowner whose fortune his elder brother squandered; the Korean version of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea's profile says he was orphaned of his mother in 1915 and of his father in 1917. After attending Whimoon High School, he entered Yonhi College in Seoul in 1930, which he soon left, and opened a night school in the village of Sille, near Chuncheon. He published his first short stories in 1933, won a prize in 1935 and joined the Group of Nine that same year. He died of tuberculosis on 29 March 1937.

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Short stories소낙비Kim Yu-jeong · 1935not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain