Author · South Korea
Yi Hae-jo
Died in 1927
Yi Hae-jo was born in 1869 in Pocheon, in Gyeonggi, in a branch of the royal Yi clan of Jeonju. A scholar who passed the examinations, he also took an interest in Western learning and founded a school in his region. A member in 1907 and 1908 of associations devoted to education, he worked in the press, notably at the Maeil Sinbo. He published more than thirty novels, rewrote several pansori narratives in modern prose and adapted Jules Verne. These facts rest only on the encyclopedia of the Academy of Korean Studies. His family was close to the regent Daewongun, according to Yang Min-jong. He died in 1927.