Yom Sang-seop

Yom Sang-seop was born in Seoul in 1897. He left to study in Japan in 1912 and entered Keio University, which he soon left. In 1919 he prepared in Osaka a demonstration linked to the March 1st Movement, was arrested and imprisoned, then acquitted on appeal. A reporter at the Dong-a Ilbo from 1920, then at the Chosun Ilbo, he afterwards held senior positions at other daily newspapers. During the Korean War he served as a naval officer, in charge of press or political education duties. He died of cancer on 14 March 1963.

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• NovelThree Generations삼대Yom Sang-seop · 1931Literature