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Choe Seo-hae

Died in 1932

Choe Hak-song, who signed Choe Seo-hae, was born in 1901 in Seongjin, in North Hamgyong, into a poor peasant family. His father left for Jiandao, where he followed him in 1918; there he lived on makeshift jobs, as docker, servant or delivery man according to the Literature Translation Institute, before returning in 1923. Recommended by Yi Kwang-su, he published in 1924 his first noted story in the review Joseon Mundan, joined in 1925 the federation of proletarian artists and afterwards worked for reviews and newspapers. He died in 1932 of a stomach illness.

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