Chae Man-sik

Chae Man-sik was born on 17 June 1902 in Gunsan, in North Jeolla. After entering Waseda University, he returned without a degree and from 1924 to 1936 was a reporter at the Dong-a Ilbo, the Chosun Ilbo and at Gaebyeok, while writing. In 1936 he settled in Kaesong to devote himself to fiction alone, was arrested in 1938 over his ties to a reading circle and released on condition that he join a pro-Japanese literary association, then after liberation denounced the compromise of intellectuals, his own included. He died of tuberculosis on 11 June 1950.

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• NovelTurbid Rivers탁류Chae Man-sik · 1937Literature