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colonization. "Noma" in the title means a slow horse and is a humble expression suggesting that the author joined the activism against Japan too late. This report is another example of a cultural resistance against
Japanese imperialism, and its narrator refuses to give up hope for the home country and Asia in such harsh realities. Through this work, Kim suggests that his escape was a way to fight against Japan and to ensure his freedom to write, and also one of his attempts to realize utopia.
190:, refers to the fall of corrupt, pro-Japanese influences who originally served as the officials of the Joseon's feudal system. The novel describes different aspects of a colonized society and it deals with the family of the pro-Japanese official who is apprehensive about the vengeance of independence activists. It also successfully captures the beauty of the Korean language by implementing the dialect of Pyongyang, traditional
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history because he was from the Yeonan (Yan'an in
Chinese) group, which stood against Kim Il-sung, until he was reinstated in 1987 and reevaluated as a conscientious nationalist. In South Korea, he was hardly acknowledged since he moved to North Korea and wrote in Japanese; however, after the 1990s, critics enthusiastically acclaimed him for his bilingual and post colonialist writing.
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story, who acts like a
Japanese, and Haruo, who denies his Korean heritage, reveal their true identities at the end. "Into the Light" is significant as it posed the question of ethnic identity during the last period of the colonization when the Japanese government tried to assimilate the Koreans, and as it supported the ideology that 'Korean things' that can never be assimilated.
148:(๋์ค๋ ํ์์ ํฅํ์ฌ, The Ranks Go Towards the Sun), in 1950. Then he took part in the Korean War as one of the war writers and wrote reports like "Seoul-eseo suwon-euro (์์ธ์์ ์์์ผ๋ก, From Seoul to Suwon)" and "Urineun ireoke igyeotda (์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๊ฒผ๋ค, This Is How We Won)." He reportedly died of a heart attack near Wonju, in October 1950, after finishing his last work, the report on war
124:(ํธ์ , Tiger Swallowtail) while fighting against Japan. On hearing the news of Japan's defeat on August 15, 1945, he returned to his home country as the advance party of the Korean Volunteer Army. He participated in a roundtable talk of writers held in Seoul and the inaugural meeting of the Literary Alliance of Joseon.
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Many of Kim's works vividly depict the reality of Korea and its situation as a
Japanese colony. He wrote predominantly in Japanese, but he focused on the reality of the colonized country, explored the identity of the Korean people, and criticized the Japanese colonization. Also, he prolifically wrote
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which came out in 1946 after the country's independence, documents his personal experience of escaping to Yan'an in China and joining the Korean
Volunteer Army; it also serves as a historical material of great import about the activism against Japan carried out in China during the last period of the
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His short story "Into the Light," written in
Japanese and published in 1939, is one of the major works of Kim's early career. Focusing on the internal conflict of the protagonist Haruo, born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother, the story deals with Korean residents in Japan. The narrator of the
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was published in Japan. He wrote stories in Korean as well, such as "Yuchijang-eseo mannan sanai (์ ์น์ฅ์์ ๋ง๋ ์ฌ๋์ด, The Man I Met in Jail)," published in 1941. During the
Pacific War, he was in detention for 50 days, forced to follow the Japanese military on the frontlines of the Southeast Asia and to
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in 1914. While he was studying at
Pyeongyang High School, he led a strike against Japan for which he was expelled from school. He moved to Japan in 1932, graduated Saga High School, and got into Tokyo Imperial University in 1936 to study German literature. In university, he published a short story
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Kim received diverse criticisms in South and North Korea and the literary world of the Korean
Japanese. In the latter, he was categorized as a writer of proletarian literature and became well known after his nomination for the Akutagawa Prize. In North Korea, his name was erased in the literary
103:(๋์กฐ, Falling) in Korean from 1940 to 1941. Also, his Japanese-written short stories "Cheonma (์ฒ๋ง, Heavenly Horse)" and "Pulsup gipsugi (ํ์ฒ ๊น์์ด, Far into the Grassland)" came out in 1940, and "Hyangsu (ํฅ์, Homesick)" in 1941. In the same year, his first short story collection
120:(๋ฐ๋ค์ ๋
ธ๋, Songs of the Sea) in 1943. He was sent to China in 1945 as a member of the group organized to entertain student soldiers, but he escaped to the Taihang mountain in Yan'an, China. Later, he joined the Alliance for Joseon Liberation in North China, and wrote the play
44:; 3 March 1914 โ 1950) was a Korean writer. He wrote in a variety of genres including novels, plays, reports, and reviews, in two languages, Korean and Japanese. His career as a writer first began in Japan after publishing a short story written in Japanese, and his
152:(๋ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค, I See the Ocean). His works have been translated and introduced in not only Japan and Korea, but also China and the U.S. In 2005, a monument commemorating Kim's literary legacy was erected at the entrance of the village of Hujiazhuang in China.
86:(์ถํฅ์ , The Story of Chunhyang) in Joseon, organized by the drama company Sinhyeop. Kim submitted his thesis about Heinrich Heine and graduated university in 1939. After the graduation, he briefly worked as a journalist for the
82:, adapted it into a play, and performed it with the Joseon Art Group. However, the performance caused trouble and he was in detention with other members of the group for two months. In 1938, he took part in the performance of
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He published the short story "Into the Light," and also translated and introduced into
Japanese many Korean literary works, such as "Mumyeong (๋ฌด๋ช
, Absence of Light)," a short story written by Yi Kwang-su.
140:(๋
ธ๋ง ๋ง๋ฆฌ, The Slow Horse Goes Four Thousand Kilometers), Kim moved to North Korea and became a major member of culture and arts organizations. He left a number of works, including his plays
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In 1940, Kim Sa-ryang became the first Korean author to be nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, for his short story "Into the Light." He started publishing serially his novel
48:-written works were later published in Korea. For his short story "Bit soge (๋น ์์, Into the Light)," written in Japanese, he became the first Korean to be nominated for the
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112:(๊ณ ํฅ, Hometown). In the same year, Kim returned to his hometown and researched the conditions of the slash-and-burn farming villages, and published the novels
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write about them, but he refused to the end. In 1942, he published "Sipjang kkopsae (์ญ์ฅ ๊ผฝ์, The Chief Worker, Mr. Hunchback)" and the short story collection
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published from 1940 to 1941, recounts the story of the family of Yun Seong-hyo, a descendant of a high ranking, corrupt official. The title
52:. He went to China in 1945 to join the army fighting for Korea's liberation. After the country's independence, he mostly lived and wrote in
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Beginning in the time when Japan invaded the country and culminating in the March First Movement of 1919, the Korean-language novel
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entitled "Toseongnang (ํ ์ฑ๋, The Shantytown near the Earthen Ramparts)" in the second volume of the literary coterie magazine
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The story was later translated into Japanese with the title "Count Q" and included in his second short story collection.
415:ใ๋น ์์ใ, ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํ ํผ ์ค์บ ์์ญ, ์์์, 2015 / Into the Light: Volume 95, translated by Christopher D. Scott, Asia Publishers, 2015
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