Cho Myoung-hee (English spelling)

Japanese: 趙明熙 - ちょうめいき（英語表記）Cho Myŏng‐hǔi

1892‐1942
Korean poet and novelist. His pen name was Boseok. He was born in Jincheon, North Chungcheong Province. He went to Japan and studied philosophy at Toyo University. He returned to Korea in 1923 and worked as a journalist before moving to the Soviet Union in 1928, where he worked mainly as a teacher. In 1936 he worked as a managing director for the Far East region of the Union of Soviet Writers in Khabarovsk, and spent the rest of his life in the Soviet Union. During this time, he participated in the founding of the KUP (Korean Proletarian Arts League) in 1925. His representative work, Nakdong River (1927), which depicts the struggle and death of the protagonist whose homeland has been taken from him, is a short story filled with revolutionary romanticism, and can be said to be a masterpiece in the history of Korean proletarian literature.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1892‐1942
朝鮮の詩人，小説家。号は抱石。忠清北道鎮川生れ。渡日して東洋大学哲学科に学ぶ。1923年帰国して記者生活ののち，28年ソ連領に入り主に教員生活を送る。36年ハバロフスクでソ連作家同盟極東地区常務として働き，ソ連で生涯をおえた。この間25年カップ(朝鮮プロレタリア芸術同盟)創建に参加。故郷を奪われた主人公の闘いと死を描いた代表作《洛東江》(1927)は，革命的ロマンティシズムに溢れる短編であり，朝鮮プロレタリア文学史にきわだつ秀作といえよう。

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