Korean novelistsJapanese colonial period
Kim Yu-jeong
金裕貞1908 - 1937Novelist, essayist, poet
Kim Yu-jeong was a modern Korean short-story writer from Chuncheon. His works such as Spring, Spring, Camellias, and The Scoundrels are widely read for their humor, dialect, and vivid rural settings.
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He published intensively in the early and mid-1930s and also taught at Geumbyeonguisuk. His fiction captures poverty, desire, and humor within rural communities through lively dialogue.