![]() However, Kim quickly began to recognize the strength of social constraints, and his works began to reflect an inability to exceed these constraints. In his early works, Kim shows a burning desire to escape the bounds of quotidian existence he often does this through fantasy or hallucination. His works depict the daily life of petit bourgeois individuals who are unable to adapt to reality rife with materialism and social climbing in the rapid industrialization of the country. His sensuous writing style and quality fiction were praised for starting a “revolution of sensibilities” in Korean literature. Kim depicted an individual’s sense of loss as he wanders, unable to adapt to reality during the industrialization of South Korea in the 1960s. The Kim Seungok Literary Museum was established in 2010, and the Kim Seungok Literary Award has been awarded every year since 2013. In 1995, a five-volume set of his work, Kim Seungok soseol jeonjip (김승옥소설전집 Complete Works of Kim Seungok), was published. ![]() Kim served as an editor-in-chief at Samtoh and later as a professor of Korean literature at Sejong University. ![]() Kim Seung-ok was the screenwriter, and director Kim Soo-yong won the Best Director award at the 14th Asia-Pacific Film Festival. In 1967, "Journey to Mujin" was adapted into the film Mist. His greatest success was "Seoul 1964 nyeon gyeoul," a work that crystallized a Korean sense of loss and meaninglessness attendant to the industrialization of Korea and resulting nihilism. Most of his representative works, such as "Mujin gihaeng" (무진기행 Journey to Mujin) and "Seoul, 1964 nyeon gyeoul" (서울, 1964년 겨울 Seoul, 1964, Winter), were published soon after. The same year, while still a junior at university, Kim founded the literary journal The Age of Prose (산문시대) with Kim Hyeon, Yeom Mu-ung, and Kim Chi-su, and published his short stories "Geon" (건 Dry) and "Hwansangsucheop" (환상수첩 Fantasy Notebook) there. While at Seoul National University, Kim was a cartoonist for the Seoul Economic Daily and published his first major story at age 19, "Saengmyeongyeonseup" (생명연습 Practice for Life), winning the Hankook Ilbo New Writer's Contest in 1962. In 1960, he studied French literature at Seoul National University at a time when the department and university were the center of intellectual discontent in Seoul. There, he was raised in Suncheon, Jeollanam-do where he graduated from Suncheon High School. Kim Seungok (born December 1941) is a South Korean novelist and screenwriter.īorn in Osaka, Japan, Kim Seungok returned to Korea after its liberation in 1945.
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