Yi Ho-cheol

Yi Ho-cheol was born on 15 March 1932 in Wonsan, in South Hamgyong. A secondary-school student, he was mobilised in July 1950 into the Northern army, taken prisoner at Yangyang by the Southern army and then released, and reached Pusan at the end of the year on an American transport. There he worked as a docker, as a worker in a noodle factory and as a guard on an American base, and wrote in his spare time. Recommended by Hwang Sun-won to the journal Munhak Yesul, he made his debut there in 1955. Imprisoned in 1974 in the so-called affair of the spy writers, he died in 2016.

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• Short stories나상Yi Ho-cheol · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature