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Kim Yeong-il
Kim Yeong-il, who writes under the pen name, Kim Ji-ha, became the best-known South Korean dissident writer under President Park Chung Hee.
KIM YEONG-IL (1941-). Kim Yeong-il, who writes under the pen name, Kim Ji-ha, became the best-known South Korean dissident writer under President Park Chung Hee. A Roman Catholic, and supporter of radical theology, Kim attacked Park's regime for its oppression of the poor and promotion of elite groups in a series of poems, essays, and plays. In 1972, he was tried under the 1961 Anti-Communism Law, and was sentenced to death in 1974.
Following national and international protests, however, Kim was reprieved, and released briefly with a suspended sentence. He was reimprisoned in 1975, and held, mostly in solitary confinement, until 1980. Since then, his work has been published in South Korea, and Kim has also worked on environment and human rights issues.
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Following national and international protests, however, Kim was reprieved, and released briefly with a suspended sentence. He was reimprisoned in 1975, and held, mostly in solitary confinement, until 1980. Since then, his work has been published in South Korea, and Kim has also worked on environment and human rights issues.
All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. (Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea, by Andrew C. Nahm and James E. Hoare, published by RLPG Books, appears by permission of the author and publisher).
