Kim Yujǒng:
A Writer Who Lives On Almost a Century After His Death
Bruce Fulton
Kim Yujǒng (1908-1937) is one of several Korean writers who lived abbreviated lives but whose works helped cement the role of Korean short fiction as the foundation of modern Korean literature. The latest edition of his collected works (2012) lists 32 stories (in addition to a dozen personal essays—sup’il—and a handful of other prose writings). Of these stories, 27 were published during his lifetime, almost all between mid-1935 and mid-1937—one of the most productive bursts of creativity in modern Korean literary history.
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