Han Seol-ya

Han Byeong-do, who wrote under the name Han Seol-ya, was born in 1900 near Hamhung, the son of a district magistrate. A graduate of Hamhung high school in 1919, he studied sociology at Nihon University in Tōkyō from 1921. He joined the federation of proletarian artists and was imprisoned in the roundup of 1934. After liberation, he held high office in the North, including that of Minister of Education, before being sidelined in 1962. His death is dated to 1976 by his tomb, by unconfirmed rumours according to the wiki of the Academy of Korean Studies.

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• Novel황혼Han Seol-ya · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature