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Yun Baek-nam

Died in 1954

Yun Baek-nam was born in 1888 in Gongju, in South Chungcheong. According to the Academy's Korean encyclopaedia, he studied in Japan, at Waseda and then at the Tokyo higher commercial school, and in 1913 ran the editorial office of the Maeil Sinbo. An actor and founder of theatre troupes, he published in 1920 an essay regarded as the first theory of modern Korean theatre, then directed in 1923 a work presented as the country's first fiction feature film. He went on to write historical novels, took over the Sorabeol arts school in 1953 and died in 1954.

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