Yun Heung-gil

Infobox Korean name
hangul=윤흥길
hanja=尹興吉
rr=Yun Heung-gil
mr=Yun Hŭnggil

Yun Heung-gil (born December 14 1942) is a South Korean novelist known for his treatment of conflicts between the individual and society. He received his degree in Korean literature from Wongwang University in 1973.

Yun's career can be divided into three phases. In the first phase, in the early 1970s, Yun uses a young male narrator to depict a gloomy existence in which the family is threatened by internal or external troubles. His works in this period were often partly autobiographical. Later, his works depict life under the authoritarian Park Chunghee regime, in which the primary tension is between personal conscience and material well-being. In 1977, he entered into the third stage with the publication of "The Man Left with Nine Pairs of Shoes", in which the characters actively resist the forces oppressing them.

ee also

*List of Korean novelists
*Korean literature
*Contemporary culture of South Korea

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