Kim Tong-in

Kim Tong-in was born on 2 October 1900 in Pyongyang; his father, Kim Dae-yun, was the first elder of the city's church. He studied in Japan, at Meiji Gakuin college and then at an art school, and in February 1919 founded in Tōkyō, with other young Koreans, a literary magazine that he financed himself; arrested that same year over a leaflet, he was released in June. Ruined around 1930, he wrote from 1938 in favour of Japan, then was imprisoned in 1942. He died at home, in Seoul, on 5 January 1951, during the evacuation of the city.

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• Short stories배따라기Kim Tong-in · 1921not translated into EnglishLiterature