1. Hwang Sok-yong was born on January 4,1943 and is a South Korean novelist.
10 Facts About Hwang Sok-yong
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Hwang Sok-yong's family returned to Korea after liberation in 1945.
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Hwang Sok-yong later obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Dongguk University.
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Hwang Sok-yong has been an avid reader of a wide range of literature and he wanted to become a writer since childhood.
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Hwang Sok-yong published a collection of stories, On the Road to Sampo in 1974, and became a household name with his epic, Jang Gilsan, which was serialized in a daily newspaper over a period of ten years.
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Hwang Sok-yong wrote for the theater, and several members of a company were killed while performing one of his plays during the 1980 Gwangju uprising.
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The 1985 appearance of Lee Jae-eui's book Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of Age brought new trouble: Hwang Sok-yong originally agreed to take credit as the author to help market the book, and both Hwang Sok-yong as the assumed author and the publisher were arrested and sent to prison.
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Hwang Sok-yong spent time in Germany, which he found transformational.
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Hwang Sok-yong published his next novel, The Old Garden, in 2000.
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Hwang Sok-yong defined the reality of Korea as a "nation-wide state of homelessness", and has continuously explored the psychology of the people who have lost their "homes", symbolic or real.