Kim Dong-in

Japanese: 金東仁 - きんとうじん

Korean novelist. While studying in Tokyo, he published the literary coterie magazine "Creation" (1919), in which he published "The Sorrow of the Weak." After that, he was conscious of his senior, Lee Kwang-soo, and regarded Lee's literature as an example of Enlightenment, aiming for pure literature, and wrote works of various tendencies, including "Boat Song," "Flogging," "Sweet Potatoes," and "Red Mountain." He also excelled in critiques and essays, including "Thoughts on Modern Korean Novels," "Studies on the Spring Garden," and "A Thirty-Year History of the Literary World."

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Japanese:

朝鮮の小説家。東京留学中に文芸同人誌《創造》（1919年）を発行し，そこに《弱き者の悲しみ》を発表する。以後，先輩の李光洙を意識し，彼の文学を啓蒙主義とみなし純文学をめざし，《舟歌》《笞刑》《甘藷》《赤い山》など様々な傾向の作品を書く。評論や随筆にもすぐれ《朝鮮近代小説考》《春園研究》《文壇三十年史》がある。

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