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example, likens post-war South Korea as a polluted land overrun by cunning, flattery, and abuses of power on the one hand, and by
American imperialism on the other. An acerbic indictment of the South Korean situation in the 1960s, the work was later reprinted in the North Korean journal, Unification Front Line (Tongil jeonseon). This fact was used by South Korean authorities, who then found Nam in violation of the Anti-Communist Law and sentenced him to imprisonment. He was released in 1967 but was jailed a second time in 1974 on charges of violating the notorious Presidential Emergency Ordinance No.1. It is precisely such abuses of power and the resulting injustice, of which he has been a victim, that Nam denounces in his fiction. The voice of critique reaches its height in âA Letter to Fatherâ (Buju jeonsangseo). But Nam Jeonghyeon's critique of all-pervasive injustice, as scathing as it is, can often leave the reader feeling somewhat hollow. His works stop at addressing surface phenomena and fail to reflect on what may lie crouched underneath.
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