Choe Jeong-hui

In this Korean name, the family name is Choe.
Choe Jeong-hui
Native name
최정희
BornDecember 3, 1912
Dancheon, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea
DiedDecember 21, 1990(1990-12-21) (aged 78)
LanguageKorean
NationalitySouth Korean
SpouseKim Dong-hwan
ChildrenKim Ji-won, Kim Chae-won
Korean name
Hangul
최정희
Hanja
崔貞熙
Revised RomanizationChoe Jeonghui
McCune–ReischauerCh'oe Chŏng-hŭi

Choe Jeong-hui (1912–1990) was one of the most successful early women writers in South Korea.[1]

Life

Choe Jeong-hui was born in Dancheon, South Hamgyong Province and was educated in Seoul. She worked at a kindergarten in Tokyo and as a journalist in Seoul before starting her writing career in 1931; she worked for the magazine Samcheolli (삼천리) and the newspaper The Chosun Ilbo (조선일보). She was associated with the Korean Artists' Proletarian Federation, and was jailed in 1934 as a result.[2][1][3]

Her daughters, Kim Ji-won and Kim Chae-won, were also successful writers.[2] She first married filmmaker Kim Yu-yeong in 1930, but they divorced a year later when she met her second husband, Kim Dong-hwan, in 1931 while working for Samcheolli.

Selected works

  • Earthly Ties (지맥), novella
  • Human Ties (인맥), novella
  • Heavenly Ties (천맥), novella[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Choi, Hyaeweol (2012). New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook. p. 214. ISBN 978-0415517096.
  2. ^ a b Kim, Chong-un; Fulton, Bruce (1998). A Ready-made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction. p. 149. ISBN 0824820711.
  3. ^ Miller, Jane Eldridge (2002). Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 63. ISBN 0415159814.


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