koreanlit1-7, Exercise 1: Post-war writing in the survey article

Model answer:

1. "The Korean War led to the development of literature centered on the wounds and chaos of war and tragedy."
2. Literature concerned with the national division (bundan soseol) "became more popular".
3. Much of post-war South Korean literature addresses ordinary people's daily lives and their struggles with national pain; a traditionalist movement sought folk rhythm and sentiment, an experimentalist movement sought new experiences in poetry.
4. "In the 1960s many South Korean writers started to reject post-war literature as sentimental escapism"; in the 1970s anti-establishment literature addressed rapid industrialisation, including neglect of farmers.

Names: the division and post-war sections name no writers or works (it elsewhere names Ri Ki-yong, author of Kohyang (1932), "later a North Korean author", and Cho Ki-chon, who "eventually moved to North Korea"). It leaves out the main post-war writers, years, and any detail on bundan soseol.

Source: Wikipedia, Korean literature (tagged "needs more citations", March 2024).