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by John Whittier Treat --Yi Kwang-su, "To a Young Friend" (rin pt ege, 1917)1 "Koreans are a people [kungmin] who know not love." i Kwang-su (1892-1950?) was seventeen years old in December 1909 when he published "Maybe Love" (Ai ka 2) in Meiji Gakuin's Shirogane gakuh, his school newsletter.3 A foreign student in Tokyo, Yi debuted as a fiction writer under the pen name Yi Po-kyng at a time of remarkable literary ferment in Japan in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), whose battles an even younger Yi had seen fought on his native Korean territory.4 Yet "Maybe Love" is often ignored by literary historians in Korea either on account of its alien language 1. Yi Kwang-su, "rin pt ege," Yi Kwang-su chnjip, vol. 14 (Seoul: Samchungdang, 1960), 31. 2. In her essay "The Early Writings of Yi Gwang-su" (Korea Journal, vol. 42, no. 2 [Summer 2002], 241-278) Ann Sung-hi Lee romanizes this story's title as "Koi ka," but in later work adopts the most certainly correct "Ai ka." The confusion doubtless arises from Yi's diary references for November 16, 17, and 18, 1909, to a short story he was working on for Shirogane gakuh as "Koi
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Mar 23, 2011
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