Author · South Korea
Yi Sang
Died in 1937
Kim Hae-gyeong, who signed as Yi Sang, was born in Seoul on 23 September 1910 and was raised by an uncle who adopted him. A graduate in architecture of the Gyeongseong higher technical school in 1929, he entered the Government-General as a technician. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1933, he left the administration and opened a café in Seoul, the Jebi, then others that failed. In 1934 he joined the Circle of Nine. Having left for Tōkyō at the end of 1936, he was detained there for a crime of opinion, then released, ill. He died on 17 April 1937 at the university hospital in Tōkyō.