Kim Ha-gi

Kim Ha-gi
Hangeul	김 하기
Hanja	金 河 杞
Revised Romanization	Gim Ha-gi
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Ha-gi
See also : Korean name

Kim Ha-gi (born June 24, 1958 in Ulsan , South Korea ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Kim Ha-gi was born on June 24, 1958 in Ulsan , South Korea . As a student at the Pusan ​​State University , he took part in the student movement in 1978 and was arrested in 1980 for demonstrating against the expansion of martial law. For his involvement in an action by government opponents in Pusan (Purim incident, 1981 ), he was sentenced to ten years in prison and only released eight years later in 1988 . His first work A young man is locked up (한 젊은이 가 갇혀 있다) consists of letters and poems that he wrote during his imprisonment.

Kim wrote many stories depicting the suffering of long-term prisoners and their indestructible will to endure it. His works have been criticized by some for being too schematic, but it is undeniable that Kim was instrumental in making the problems of long-term prisoners public. His work, Flug ohne Ziel, is about struggling student activists and individuals who are confronted with rapidly changing social conditions. In contrast to his other stories, this work is about young people and their efforts to rediscover the suffering of the older generation, but at the same time to create their own identity.

Work

Korean

Short story collections

• 완전한 만남 Perfect Meeting (1991)
• 은행 나무 사랑 Gingko Love (1996)
• 복사꽃 그 자리 There, by the peach blossoms (2002)

Novels

• 항로 없는 비행 (상, 하) Flight without a destination (1 + 2) (1993)
• 천년 의 빛 1 ~ 3 Millennial Light 1-3 (2001)
• 식민지 소년 The Boy from the Colony (2007)

Others

• 늦깎이 late bloomer (1991)
• 마침내 철책 끝에 서다 Arrived at the barbed wire (1995)
• 부마 민주 항쟁 (역사 다시 읽기 4) The Pusan- Masan Protest Movement for Democracy (History Reread ) (2004)
• 미인 들의 동굴 The Cave of Beauties (2006–2009)
• 하기 C 칼럼 Hagi C Column (2011–2012)

Translations

English

• Gingko Love (Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature, Volume 30), ASIA Publishers (2013) ISBN 978-8994006888

Awards

• 1989 - 제 01 회 임수경 통일 문학상 을 수상 ( Im Su-gyŏng Reunification Prize for Literature )
• 1922 - 제 10 회 신동엽 창작 기금 을 수상 ( Sin Tong-yŏp grant for authors )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Other common transcriptions can be viewed under Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 김 하기 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 11, 2014 
2. ↑ 한국 현대 문학 대사전: 김 하기 Retrieved August 11, 2014 (Korean)
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Kim Haki ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2014 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Ha-gi is the first name.