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Yi Sang Literary Award
The Yi Sang Literary Award (이상문학상) is a South Korean literary award. It is one of South Korea's most prestigious literary awards, named after Yi Sang, an innovative writer in modern Korean literature. The Yi Sang Literary Award was established in 1977. It is sponsored by the Korean publisher Munhaksasangsa. Winners *1977 김승옥 Kim Seung-ok, 〈서울의 달빛 0장〉 ''The Moonlight of Seoul'' *1978 이청준 Yi Chong-Jun 〈잔인한 도시〉 ''The Cruel City'' *1979 오정희 Oh Jung-hee 〈저녁의 게임〉 ''Evening Game'' *1980 유재용 Yoo Jae-yong 〈관계〉 ''Relationship'' *1981 박완서 Park Wan-suh, 〈엄마의 말뚝〉 ''Mother’s Hitching Post'' *1982 최인호 Choi In-ho, 〈깊고 푸른 밤〉 ''Deep Blue Night'' *1983 서영은 So Yeong-eun, 〈먼 그대〉 ''Distant You'' *1984 이균영 Lee Kyun-young, 〈어두운 기억의 저편〉 ''The Other Side of Dark Remembrance'' *1985 이제하 Yi Jae-ha, 〈나그네는 길에서도 쉬 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korean Literature
:''See also Culture of South Korea, Korean literature until 1945, and North Korean literature'' South Korean literature is literature written or produced in South Korea following the division of Korea into North Korea, North and South in 1945. South Korean literature is primarily written in Korean language, Korean. Literature by genre Mainstream fiction Also referred as 'pure literature' in South Korea. Most authors translated by the Korea Literature Translation Institute for translation falls into this category. The terminology is often criticized, and is a constant theme of discussion in the literature of South Korea. Some of the notable Korean mainstream fiction writers include: *Ahn Soo-kil (안수길; 1911–1977) *Eun Hee-kyung (은희경; 1959–) *Seong Seok-jae (성석제; 1960–) *Park Mingyu (박민규; 1968–) *Choi Il-nam (최일남; 1932–2023) *Kim Jae-young (author), Kim Jae-young (김재영; 1966–) *Bang Young-ung (방영웅; 1942–2022) *Bok Geo-il ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Chae-won (writer)
Kim Chae-won (; born 1946) is a South Korean author best known for the dreamlike quality of her prose. Life Kim Chae-won was born in Deokso, Gyeonggi Province in 1946. She studied painting at Ewha Womans University. Her father is the poet Kim Dong-hwan, one of Korea's foremost modernist poets (he wrote Korea's first modern epic, ''Night at the Border''), and her mother is the novelist Choe Jeong-hui. Kim grew up with her older sister under the care of her mother after her father was kidnapped by the North Korean government during the political turmoil after the Korean War. Her older sister Kim Ji-won Kim Ji-won (; born October 19, 1992) is a South Korean actress. She gained recognition through her roles in Korean drama, television series ''The Heirs'' (2013) and ''Descendants of the Sun'' (2016), before taking on leading roles in ''Fight f ... is also a novelist, and both sisters have received the respected Yi Sang Literary Award. They have collaborated on the short sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwan Ji-Hye
Kwan may refer to: People * Gavin Kwan, Indonesian football player * Kwan (surname) (關), a Chinese surname * Kwan Cheatham (born 1995), American basketball player for Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israel Basketball Premier League * nickname of Kwandwane Browne (born 1977), Trinidadian field hockey player * nickname of Suchakree Kwan Poomjang (born 1975), Thai former professional snooker player *Kwan, Canadian music producer, songwriter and engineer Other uses * Kwan, Canadian music producer, songwriter and engineer * Kwan (band), a Finnish hip hop/pop group. * Kwan (martial arts), a Korean term for a school or clan of martial artists. * Kwan (village), a Muslim village in Cambodia. * Mandarin (bureaucrat), bureaucrat scholar in the government of Joseon dynasty. * String of cash coins (currency unit), a superunit of the Korean mun. See also *Guan (other) Guan may refer to: * Guan (bird), any of a number of bird species of the family Cracidae, of South and Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Kyung-sook
Kyung-sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook (, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for '' Please Look After Mom''. Life Kyung-sook Shin was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province in southern South Korea. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. At sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school. She made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella ''Winter’s Fable'' after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major. Along with Kim Insuk and Gong Ji-young, Kyung-sook Shin is one of the group of female writers known as the 386 Generation. Career Kyung-sook Shin won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella ''Winter Fables''. She has won a wide variety of literary prizes, including the Today’s Young Artist Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee In-hwa
Yi In-hwa (; born January 5, 1966) is a South Korean writer, literary critic and professor. Biography Yi was born Lyou Chul-gyun in Daegu in 1966. When young, he was inspired by his father, a professor of Korean Language and Literature at Kyungpook National University, to become a novelist one day. During his high school years, Yi won awards for various national creative writing competitions. However, after entering college, he changed his career path to become a literary critic. There, he made his debut in 1988 with a critical essay called "Study of Yang Guija" (Yang Guija ron) which was published in Literature and Society, a Korean quarterly literary magazine. After this, he was editor for a couple of literary magazines. Several years later, he published his first novel, ''Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am'' (1992), ultimately becoming a novelist. His pen name, Yi In-hwa, is a character from Korean classical novel writer Yom Sang-seop's work, ''Before the Cries of 'Manse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Sang-woo
Park Sang-woo (; born 9 November 1955) is the 8th Minister of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of South Korea. Early life Park was born in Busan, South Korea. He graduated from the Department of Public Administration at Korea University in Seoul. He received a master's degree in urban and regional planning from George Washington University in the United States and a doctorate in engineering in urban planning from Gachon University in Incheon. Career He entered public service through the 27th Administrative Examination. He served as the Director of the Housing Policy Division, Director of the Construction Policy Division, and Director of the Planning and Coordination Division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and served as the Director of the Housing and Land Division during the Lee Myung-bak government The Cabinet of Lee Myung-bak () was the fifth government of the History of South Korea#Sixth Republic (1988–present), Sixth Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eun Hee-kyung
Eun Heekyung (; born in 1959) is a South Korean writer."은희경" biographical PDF available at: Life Eun was born in Gochang, Jeollabuk-do in 1959. She did her undergraduate degree in literature at Sookmyung Women's University, and her graduate degree in the same field at Yonsei University, both in Seoul. Her childhood was full of fairy tales A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the Folklore, folklore genre. Such stories typically feature Magic (supernatural), magic, Incantation, e ... and children's stories that her parents purchased for her. Eun once stated, "My most important reading was pretty much done during my childhood." Even as a student she always read books (non-schoolbooks), and also recounts reading so intently that she failed to hear that school was ending, and only realizing it when she was surrounded by silence as the other students had left. She also d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ji-won (author)
Kim Ji-won (; born October 19, 1992) is a South Korean actress. She gained recognition through her roles in television series ''The Heirs'' (2013) and ''Descendants of the Sun'' (2016), before taking on leading roles in ''Fight for My Way'' (2017), '' Arthdal Chronicles'' (2019), '' My Liberation Notes'' (2022), and '' Queen of Tears'' (2024) contributing to her prominence as a hallyu figure. Early life and education Kim Ji-won was born on October 19, 1992, in Geumcheon District, Seoul, South Korea. She has an older sister who is two years her senior. During her first year of junior high school, she lived in Chicago, Illinois, United States, for six months to a year, staying with her maternal relatives. After returning from the United States, she took the General Education Development (GED) exam before entering high school. In an interview, Kim stated that she is Protestant and spent most of her Christmases at church, where she played the piano during services. In 2007, Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Dae-nyeong
Yoon Dae-nyeong (born 1962) () is a South Korean writer. Life Yoon Dae-nyeong was born in 1962 in Yesan, South Chungcheong South Chungcheong Province (), informally called Chungnam, is a province of South Korea in the Hoseo region in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Chungcheong borders the provinces of Gyeonggi to the north, North Chungcheong, Sejong ... Province. He graduated from Dankook University with a degree in French Language and Literature. He admitted, however, that in his college days he attended more Korean literature classes than French ones. His early boyhood was spent with his grandparents before he joined his parents at the age of eight. Yoon's family was semi-nomadic and he lived in a variety of places, but always in poverty. His habit of reading seems to have been established very early and by the time he attended junior high school, he devoured all the books that he could find around him. Yoon wrote his first story as a senior high school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Humyong
Yun Hu-myong (January 17, 1946 – May 8, 2025) was a South Korean writer who published poetry, novels, and essays."Yun Hu-myong" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Early life Yun was born in the city of Gangneung in Gangwon, South Korea, under the name Yun Sang-gyu. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yonsei University Yonsei University () is a Private university, private Christian university, Christian research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Yonsei is one of the three most prestigious universities in the country, part of a group referred to as SK .... Work Although he was one of the major Korean writers of the 1980s, Yun's fiction maintains some distance from the dominant trend in Korean fiction of 1980s—the concern with realism as an effective literary tool in rendering contemporary social situations. Instead, what supports Yun's fictional world are individual desire and the power of fantasy. The archetypal s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choe Yun
Choe Hyeon-mu (; born 1953), better known by her pen name Choe Yun (), is a South Korean writer, translator, and professor of French literature. Life Choe was born in Seoul in 1953. She received her Ph.D. from Sogang University, graduating in 1978 and travelling to France, where she received the ''doctorate de 3ème Cycle de l' Université de Provence D.E.A.'' in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles. She made her literary debut at the relatively late age of 40, with the publication of the short story collection ''There a Petal Silently Falls''. After her debut, however, Choe was quickly recognized as one of the most important authors in modern South Korea. Choe is married to fellow literary translator . Career Choe Yun's writing merges the psychological impact of political/historical events, including the Gwangju Massacre (1980) and the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee (1961–1979), with fictional techniques. Choe's works are varied, but typically founded in particular political co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Suchol
Choi Suchol (; born May 13, 1958) is a South Korean author. Life Choi Suchol was born on May 13, 1958, in Chuncheon, South Korea. After attending Chuncheon High School, Choi received undergraduate and graduate degrees in French Literature from Seoul National University. His doctoral dissertation was on the writings of Michel Butor. He debuted in 1981 by winning the New Spring Literary Contest sponsored by ''The Chosun Ilbo ''The Chosun Ilbo'' (, ), also known as ''The Chosun Daily,'' is a Korean-language newspaper of record for South Korea and among the oldest active newspapers in the country. With a daily circulation of more than 1,800,000, ''The'' ''Chosun Ilbo ...'' with his story "Blindspot" (). He has also taught Creative Writing at Hanshin University."최수철" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Work The point of departure for Choi Suchol's fiction is the claim that genuine communication has become impossible in the print culture of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |