Jeon Sungtae

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Jeon Sung-tae
Native name	전성태
Born	1969 (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.