The Soil

Name: The Soil
Author: Yi Kwang-su

by Yi Kwang-su

Korean novel advocating agricultural development and rural modernization as path forward

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Yi Kwang-su

Pioneering Korean novelist who wrote the first modern Korean novel, Heartless. His work helped establish vernacular Korean fiction and modern literary consciousness despite his controversial collaboration with Japan.

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