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Cho Myeong-hui

Died in 1938

Cho Myeong-hui was born in 1894 in Jincheon, in North Chungcheong. Detained after the March 1st Movement of 1919, he went to study philosophy at Toyo University in Tokyo and founded a theatre association in 1920. In 1925 he was a member of the federation of proletarian artists. After crossing into the Soviet Union in 1928, he joined the Soviet writers' union. Accused of spying for Japan, he was shot in 1938, then rehabilitated in 1956, according to the Korea Literature Translation Library.

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