Yi Hyo-seok

Yi Hyo-seok was born in 1907 in Pyeongchang, in Gangwon. In 1925 he entered Keijo Imperial University, in the English section, the year his first poem appeared. After his studies, he worked briefly in the censorship service of the Japanese government-general, then taught English in North Hamgyong and, from 1934, at Soongsil University in Pyongyang. At first close to the literary left without committing himself to it, he took part in the Group of Nine and turned to a prose attentive to nature. He died in May 1942, of meningitis according to the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

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• Short storiesWhen Buckwheat Flowers Bloom메밀꽃 필 무렵Yi Hyo-seok · 1936Literature