Kim Dong-in

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Kim Dong-in


Born
in Pyeongyang, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
October 02, 1900

Died
January 05, 1951


Kim Dong-in, born on October 2, 1900 in Pyeongyang, Pyeongannam-do was a pioneer of realism and naturalism in Modern Korean literature.

A son of a wealthy landowner, like many other young Korean intellectuals Kim took his higher education in Japan, attending the Meiji Academy in Tokyo and entering the Kawabata School of Fine Arts.[2] Kim dropped out when he decided to pursue writing as a career.[3] In 1919, Kim and other advocates for "art-for-art's-sake-literature," launched the influential but transitory journal Creation (Changjo) in Japan along with Joo Yohan, Jeon Yeongtaek, Choi Seungman, and Kim Hwan.[3] Creation took a stand against the didactic literature ("national literature" to put it another way) proposed by Yi Kwang-su,[4] In C
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