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Controversy lingered after Yi's death, and there are allegations from eyewitnesses that suggest Yi was subject to live experimentation - which was common practice in
Japanese prisons during the period. It is reported Yi's bloodstream was injected with saline solution in the prison hospital - which subsequently killed him."He was cremated and buried in Miari, Seoul.
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Japanese colonial government has made his work famous in Korea. In 1939, Yi published his most famous poem, "Green Grapes". Yi strove to write in the
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Beijing and apparently began smuggling weapons into Korea. That same year, Yi returned to Korea on the first anniversary of the death of his mother. He was arrested in Korea, and transferred to Beijing, where he died in prison on January 16, 1944, at the age of 39.
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