About In-Hoon Choe (1936-)

Born in 1936 in Hwe Ryoung, Ham Book-do, he studied law at Seoul National University. He was brought out to the public after being recommended to the "Free Literature" club with "The Full Account on the Gray Club" and "Raul story".

His major works include novels such as, "Open Space/Dream of Nine Clouds", "Gray Man", "Pilgrims to the West", "The Daily Event of a Novelist Gubo", "Typhoon", "The Sound of Viceroy", "Christmas Carol/Contemplation on Mask", "Bridge in the Sky/Dooman River". "The House of Idol" and "Topic", the play, "Once Upon a Time", and essays "Dream of Utopia", and "Literature and Ideology".

All 12 volumes of the Complete Works of In-Hoon Choe were published in 1979. He won the "Dong-in Literature Award", "Choongang Culture Award", "Yi san Literature Award", "Korean Play Cinema Art Award" and "Seoul Play Valuation Group Award".
The novels "Gray Man" and "The Square" were translated into English and French respectively.

The list of the Complete Works

1. The Square/ The Dream of Nine Clouds, 1976
2. Gray Man, 1977
3. Pilgrims to the West, 1977
4. The Daily Event of a Novelist Gubo, 1976
5. Typhoon, 1978
6. Christmas Carol/Contemplation on Mask, 1976
7. Bridge in the Sky/Dooman River, 1978
8. The House of Idol, 1976
9. The Sound of Viceroy. 1980
10. Once Upon a Time, 1979
11. Dream of Utopia, 1980
12. Literature and Ideology, 1979

The Square/ The Dream of Nine Clouds, 1976

This book was first published 40 years ago, and has been printed an additional 130 times. It surely is the monument of Korean Literature.
Locked-room without open space or open space without a locked room. As the first and only fiction that dealt with the partition of South and North Korea with an ideological approach, it serves as a classic in modern Korean Literature. The protagonist, Myoung-Joon Yi's tragedy and aspirations are those of our nation.

Once Upon a Time, 1979

This play of unshakable structure, poetry-like instructions, compressed dialogs, and poetic tension of the dialogs, which also has the possibility of being expanded to the poetry world, shows the amazing play writing skills of In Hoon Choe which hadn't been constructed by any other Korean playwright.