Yi Beom-seon

Yi Beom-seon was born in 1920 in Anju, in South Pyongan. Under the colonial period he worked in a credit cooperative, then, conscripted by force, as an accountant in a coal mine until liberation, according to the Korea Literature Translation Institute. Having crossed to the South in 1946, he graduated in 1949 from Dongguk University, taught in high schools and made his debut in 1955, on the recommendation of Kim Tong-ni according to the Spanish edition published in Málaga. He later taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and at the Sorabeol School of the Arts, and died in 1981.

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• Short storiesA Stray Bullet오발탄Yi Beom-seon · 1959Literature