Light of Korea

Japanese: 朝鮮之光 - ちょうせんのひかり

A magazine (Korean language) published in colonial Korea. First published in November 1922. Originally edited and published by Chang Dobin, it was a moderate nationalist magazine, but after a change of editors in 1925 it took on a stronger socialist tone, publishing novels and essays by Jo Myong-hee and Park Young-hee, and encouraging the formation of a proletarian literary movement. It is said that in early 1928, the Korean Communist Party (ML faction) decided to make The Light of Korea its organ magazine, but this never came to fruition due to the party's oppression. After that, it continued to be written by people with various tendencies as a left-wing general magazine.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

植民地下の朝鮮の雑誌(朝鮮語)。1922年11月創刊。当初の編集発行人は張道斌（ちようどうひん）で，穏健な民族主義誌だったが，編集人の交替後25年ころから社会主義的色彩を強め，趙明熙，朴英熙らの小説･評論を掲載，プロレタリア文学運動の形成を促した。28年初め朝鮮共産党(ML派)は《朝鮮之光》を党機関誌にすることを決定したといわれるが，共産党への弾圧で実現をみなかったらしい。その後も左翼的な総合雑誌として種々の傾向を持つ人びとが執筆した。

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