22 Facts About Yi Munyeol

Yi Munyeol's works include novels, short stories and Korean adaptations of classic Chinese novels as well as political and social commentaries.

Yi Munyeol's works have garnered many literary awards and many have been adapted for film and television.

Yi Munyeol had a 40-room residence and 200 pyeong, or 660 square meters, of land.

Yi Munyeol studied in Britain and taught agriculture at Seoul National University.

Yi Munyeol then studied for the Korean bar exam and failed three times.

Yi Munyeol married in 1973 and then joined the army to complete his compulsory military service.

Yi Munyeol was awarded the Dong-A Ilbo award for a short story, Saehagok, in 1979.

Yi Munyeol reached the peak of his literary productivity in the 1980s and 1990s but continued to write.

Yi Munyeol is currently a chair professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Yi Munyeol has close ties to Gwangsan Literature Research Institute, in Dudeul Village and was instrumental in establishing its library which contains 20,000 books.

Yi Munyeol provided short descriptions of a wide selection of Yi's works that support this assertion.

Yi Munyeol undertakes a fast in the desert where he meets the Great Spirit, an opponent of the Jewish god, Yahweh.

Yi Munyeol left seminary, disillusioned by the perceived hypocrisy he found there and, together with a devoted follower, attempts to relieve the suffering of downtrodden Koreans in a more direct way.

Yi Munyeol's dream is to be a ruler who will free the kingdom of foreign domination, both military and cultural.

Yi Munyeol had graduated from a prominent university, but had declined to work with one of the chaebols, which he viewed as authoritarian, hypocritical and corrupt.

Yi Munyeol had taken a job in sales, but that job was dependent on the chaebols.

Yi Munyeol went on to comment that after Chun Doo-hwan became the president of South Korea, there was an understanding for intellectuals that if they stayed quiet, they wouldn't be punished.

Yi Munyeol is highly talented in art and poetry which leads her father to lament that she was born a woman.

Yi Munyeol's lament was interpreted as an expression of love but as a warning of the discord that would occur if she were to insist on realizing her talents.

Yi Munyeol "chooses" instead to become a devoted wife, daughter-in-law, and mother.

Yi Munyeol had to give up his talent and enlist in the military amid conflicts with the system, just like Mrs Jang's choice to give up academics despite her talent.

Yi Munyeol takes up the leftist cause only to be disillusioned.