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Yi Sang

Kim Haegyŏng (; September 23, 1910 – April 17, 1937), also known by his art name Yi Sang (), was a writer and poet who lived in Korea under Japanese rule. Although he was a poet, he did not receive specialized education in Korean language or creative writing, and instead majored in architecture at Gyeongseong Industrial High School (), now known as Seoul National University of Science and Technology. After contracting tuberculosis in 1933, Yi Sang quit his job as a public official and ran a café, continuing his literary exchanges with the Guinhoe group (). He died in Japan in April 1937.

He is well known for his poems and novels, such as ''Crow's Eye View'' and ''The Wings''. Among them, ''Crow's Eye View'' received strong protests from the people at the time as not being a proper poem. Fellow poet Park Tae-won wrote in his memorial essay that people called ''Crow's Eye View'' "the sleep talk of a lunatic." Yi Sang's work contains various scientific symbols and terms, and is structurally very difficult to understand as it contains many experimental attempts. He uses wordplay through homonyms and also uses pictures in his works. He is considered as a pivotal and revolutionary figure of modern Korean literature. Provided by Wikipedia