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Jeon Sung-tae | |
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Native name | 전성태 |
Born | 1969 Goheung |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Alma mater | Chung-Ang University |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 전성태 |
Hanja | 全成太 |
Revised Romanization | Jeon Seongtae |
McCune–Reischauer | Chŏn Sŏngt'ae |
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Jeon Sungtae is a South Korean writer.
South Korea’s 1980s was a time when university students were on the frontlines of political activism, which later contributed to the growth of various civil movements. To categorize the political lines of liberal university students of the 1980s, There was the PD (People Democracy), which focused on labor movements based on Marxist ideologies, and the NL (National Liberty), which thought the most important thing was reunification based on their studies of North Korea’s Juche ideology. Jeon Sungtae is a writer who thinks that the contradiction of South Korean society arises from the special nature of being a divided nation. Therefore, the various characters in Jeon Sungtae’s fiction agonize over the tragic situation of war and division between North and South Korea, while at the same time also suffering from the oppressive reality that such conditions give rise to.