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=Yi Kwang-su 이광수 =
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Biography
 * Born - March 4, 1892
 * Died - October 25, 1950
 * His parents died when he was 10 years old
 * The village community took care of him as he had already become viewed by his fellow villagers as a local prodigy
 * Graduated Waseda University(早稻田) in Japan (1916 - 1919)

 Shin saw the nation in an organic manner, with his worldview influenced by Social Darwinism. It was Yi Kwangsu, however, who would contribute (or at least popularize) other ideas to fine-tune Shin's concept into one that endures up to the present. "It was sect leaders who provided Yi with a scholarship to study in Japan where he went in 1905. In Tokyo, he acquired a native fluency in Japanese. Indeed, Japanese, not Korean, was the language he used in his first fiction writings." Yi also learned English there, and in the 1930s was described as being able to speak 'beautiful English.' 
 * 1910 he returned to Korea, to his hometown of Osan (in northern Korea), and became a teacher (and also got married).


 * February 1919, Yi was among the Korean students leaders in Japan who composed the “ Feb. 2 Declaration of Independence.”

Yi is most famous for `Mujeong” (Heartlessness), which was printed in “Maeil Sinbo, the only Korean-language newspaper allowed by the colonial authorities at the time.”

To personal anecdote from around 1936, from Agnes Davis Kim's "I Married A Korean," describes a visit with Yi at her house: 

One very interesting visitor was Mr. Lee Kwang-Soo, the famous author of Korean novels and stories whose pen name is Choon Won, which means "Spring Garden." He had been David's teacher in O-Sang [Osan] High School, and was very much interested in us. David unfortunately was not home when he came, but he spoke beautiful English and I did my best to entertain him. A short while before, I had illuminated and framed as a gift to David a little poem about my feelings for him. Mr. Lee picked it up, and after reading it asked to make a copy of it. A few days later an article he had written of his impressions of our home appeared in the daily newspaper along with a Korean translation of my poetical efforts [.][...] A short time later we were invited to the home of Mr. Lee Kwang-soo for dinner and an evening of wonderful conversation about Korea and Korean traditions. [p. 151-153]



Works Cited: http://www.ktlit.com/korean-literature/life-of-writer-yi-kwang-su-from-nationalist-to-collaborator http://nanoomi.net/archives/959 http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Korean_literature http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=125359 http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2010/05/yi-kwangsu-and-korean-nationalism.html