Choi Ihn-suk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetChoi Ihn-suk
South Korean writer
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1953
Place of Birth: Namwon, North Jeolla Province, South Korea
Profession: writer
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Choi Ihn-suk
- Choi Ihn Suk is a writer, playwright and screenwriter who is a significant figure in Korean Realism.
- He felt limited within the domain of the performing arts, which was not free from censorship, and began writing fiction.
- Choi Ihn Suk says the following.
- “At the time, there was censorship.
- If you finished writing a script, you had to submit it to the Performing Arts Committee before putting on the show.
- Then the committee would read the script.
- They’d cross out certain sections with red lines, demanding an edit, and in the worst case the show couldn’t happen.
- You could only put up a show once you passed through censorship.
- Fiction or poetry would get censored afterwards, but performances would get censored beforehand.
- Due to such conditions of the time, it was difficult to write a script and put up a play.
- So I began writing fiction.”As a writer who began writing fiction to find literary freedom, Choi Ihn Suk is a writer who expands his literary scope by repeated change.
- Gangcheolmujigae (????? Iron Rainbow), a novel published in 2015, is a science fiction story about Korea after 2100.
- In Gangcheolmujigae (????? Iron Rainbow), the value of labor in Korea has fallen, and nuclear waste has been spilled over the Yellow Sea, turning it into a sea of death.
- Society is controlled by a totalitarian regime, and other than the fact that there has been reunification, it is a place of darkness.
- Upon such imagination of science fiction, Choi Ihn Suk throw a question of realism regarding reality.
Read more at Wikipedia