[Week 4] My Research

1) About His Life

Lee Sang was born in Gangneung at 1910. When he was 3 years old, He began to be taken care of by their grandparents, instead of their parents. He was very interested in drawing and art when he was adolescent but he majored architecture in Gyeongsung Engineering High School called Seoul National University, Department of Engineering. Nonetheless, he graduated first his school and worked Chosun Chongdokboo 朝鮮總督府 as engineer. Many scholoars said that he maybe feel ashamed because his job was for Japanese, not his ethnic group, Korean. In 1933, He abandoned his work and started his literary career as poet. His Debut work was '이상한 가역반응 Strange Reversible reaction' but he got a lot of criticism because of shocking form. When he met Geumhong at first, they promised to marry and decided to run coffee shop named 제비 Swallow. However, his married life was not happy, rather than terrible because Geumhong was prostitute and so vain. After divorcing, he got terrible pneunomia and went to Tokyo for recovering but he was placed under arrest for rebellious ideology. Finally, when he was 27 years old, he died in Tokyo Municipal Hospital.

2) Analysis

- Parents' Nurturing Abandonment  > Skeptical attitude toward family.
  ex.) 문을 열려고 안 열리는 문을 열려고 Try to open the door in house which was closed tightly. <가정 Family>

- Majoring Architecture > Using geometrical espression
 ex.) 직선은 원을 살해하였는가? Did straight line kill the circle?
<이상한 가역반응 Strange Revisible reaction>

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