Hyeon Jin-geon

Hyeon Jin-geon was born in Daegu in 1900. He studied in Tōkyō and then in Shanghai, where he learned German at Hogang University. In 1922 he founded the magazine Baekjo with Na To-hyang and others. After six years devoted to fiction, he became a journalist at the Chosun Ilbo, the Sidae Ilbo and then the Dong-a Ilbo, where he headed the society section in 1936 when the newspaper published the photograph of the Korean winner of the Berlin marathon, with the Japanese flag erased. Arrested, he was released, according to the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, only by undertaking to leave the press. He died on 25 April 1943.

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