Kim Myeong-sun
{{Short description|Korean writer (1896–1951)}}
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Kim Myeong-sun ({{Korean|hangul=김명순|hanja=金明淳}}; 20 January 1896 – 22 June 1951) was a female Korean novelist and poet of the early 20th century.Lee ed. (1993) gives 1896; Lee ed. (1983) gives 1905. She wrote under the art names Tansil ({{Korean|hangul=탄실|hanja=彈實|labels=no}}) and Mangyangcho ({{Korean|hangul=망양초|hanja=望洋草|labels=no}}).[http://www.womenshistory.re.kr:7070//main.ControlServlet김탄실(1896-?) 성의 갈등과 상실을 민족사랑으로 승화시킨 여류문인]{{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} {{in lang|ko}}
Life
Kim Myeong-sun was born in Pyongyang, Joseon in 1896. Kim attended Chinmyeong Girls' School in Seoul in 1908 where she was considered a good student, but she was bullied due to her mother's status as a kisaeng. She was also mistreatment by her step-mother's family, leading her to drop out of school in 1911. In 1913, she went to Tokyo to study at Kojimachi's Girls' School, but did not complete her studies there. She soon returned to Korea to earn her degree at Sungmyeon's Girls' School.{{cite book|title=Questioning Minds |page=15|author=Kim, Yung-Hee|publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Hawaii |year=2010|isbn=978-0824834098}}
In 1919, she joined the Creation group, Korea's first literary circle, which was organized by Kim Dong-in and other Korean students in Tokyo. She briefly worked as a reporter for the newspaper Maeil Sinmun, and from 1927 to 1930 she worked in film.{{cite book|title=Questioning Minds |page=16|author=Kim, Yung-Hee|publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Hawaii |year=2010|isbn=978-0824834098}} She then suffered from financial problems and succumbed to mental illness late in life.Lee ed. (1993), p. 123.
Work
Kim made her literary debut in 1917, in a magazine edited by Choe Nam-seon called Youth (소년, Sonyeon), with a novella titled Mysterious Girl (의문의 소녀, Uimun-ui sonyeo)Lee ed. (1983), p. 233; Lee ed. (1993), p. 123. She began publishing her poetry in 1921, and became known for her keen psychological portraits, with her 1921 novella Turkey (칠면조, Chilmyeonjo), which was published in the magazine Enlightenment (개벽, Gaebyeog). She continued publishing as late as 1925.
Relatively little is currently known about her work because, as Kim Yung-Hee notes, scholars have not studied her and are currently "attempting to excavate her lost works in order to better assess her position in the lineage of modern Korean women fiction writers."{{cite book|title=Questioning Minds |page=17|author=Kim, Yung-Hee|publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Hawaii |year=2010|isbn=978-0824834098}}
Works
= Translated into English =
- A Girl of Mystery, in [https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Minds-Stories-Writers-Studies/dp/0824834097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1383794512&sr=8-2&keywords=%22questioning+minds%22 Questioning Minds] (University of Hawaii Press, 2009) {{ISBN|978-0-824-83409-8}}
- Collected Works of the First Korean Female Writer Kim Myeong-sun [http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailViewKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&ejkGb=KOR&barcode=9791168362499] (BookLab, 2022) ISBN 979-11-6836-249-9 03810
= In Korean =
- Dubious Girl (의문의 소녀), 1917
- Turkey (칠면조 七面鳥), 1921
- Lonely People (외로운 사람들), 1924
- When I Look Back (돌아다 볼 때), 1924
- Tansil and Juyeong (탄실이와 주영이), 1924
- Night of Burning (뭇는 날 밤), 1925
- The Vault of Heaven (창궁 蒼穹), 1925
- The Guest (손님), 1926
- I Love (나는 사랑한다), 1926
- Like a Stranger (모르는 사람갓치), 1929
See also
References
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=Sources=
- {{cite book|title=새國史事典 (Sae guksa sajeon) (Encyclopedia of Korean history)|author=Lee, Hong-jik (이홍직) ed.|publisher=Gyohaksa|location=Seoul|year=1983}}
- {{cite book|title=인명국사대사전 (Inmyeong guksa sajeon)|author=Lee, Il-cheong (이일청) ed.|publisher=Goryeo Munhwasa|location=Seoul|year=1993}}
External links
- {{cite web|url=http://kdaq.empas.com/koreandb/history/kpeople/person_view.html?n=9600|title=한국의 인물: 김명순|work=Korean DB|accessdate=2007-02-03}}
- [http://contemporaryworldpoetry.com/?page_id=564 Kim Myong-sun] {{in lang|en}}
- {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130103141336/http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=3457054 잊혀진 작고문인을 다시 보다]}} 중앙일보 2009.01.14 {{in lang|ko}}
- [http://faroutliers.blogspot.kr/2004/05/modern-japanese-and-korean-taisho.html The 'Modern' Japanese (and Korean) Taisho Woman] {{in lang|en}}
- [http://contemporaryworldpoetry.com/?p=333 Kim Myong-sun:Translation by Don Mee Choi] {{in lang|en}}
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