Kye Yong-mook


Kye Yong-mook was a South Korean writer.

Life

Kye Yong-mook, was born Ha Taeyong on September 8, 1904, in Seoncheon, Pyeonganbuk-do, Korea. Kye was educated at Sambong Public Normal School and took his collegiate education at Toyo University in Japan. Kye's first published work was the poem “The Shattered Schoolroom” which was published in the youth magazine New Voice in 1920. In 1925, Kye won the Coming of Age literary contest with his poem “O Buddha and Divine Spirits, Spring has Come.”
Kye transferred his attention to short fiction with the publication in 1927 of “Mr. Choi” in Joseon Literary World, after which he never returned to writing poetry. Like many authors of the era including Yi Sang, he was imprisoned by the Japanese colonial government in August 1943 on charges of “displaying inadequate reverence for the emperor.”After Korean Liberation, Kye struggled to maintain a non-partisan position in the atmosphere of growing ideological strife in the Korean literary world. Kye died in 1961 in the middle of serializing the novel Seolsujip in the journal Contemporary Literature. His story, Adata the Idiot, was also made into a movie by director Im Kwon-taek.

Work

The Literature Translation Institute of Korea summarizes Kang's work:

Works in Korean (Partial)