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Yi Cheong-jun

Died in 2008

Yi Cheong-jun was born on 9 August 1939 in Jangheung County, in South Jeolla. He lost his father as a child, then an elder brother. He studied German literature at Seoul National University and made his debut in 1965, in the generation linked to the April 1960 uprising. Several of his stories were adapted for the screen, notably by Im Kwon-taek and by Lee Chang-dong. He died in Seoul of lung cancer on 31 July 2008.

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