Ma Kwang-soo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1951
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Date of Death: 05-Sep-2017
Profession: writer, poet, university teacher, journalist
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Ma Kwang-soo
- Ma Kwang-soo (???; ???; 14 April 1951 - 5 September 2017) was a South Korean poet, professor in Korean literature, novelist and essayist.
- He died in an apparent suicide in September 2017.
- For most of his life, he taught at Yonsei University.
- He was imprisoned for eight months, and discharged from his university for six years, for publishing 'sexually explicit' novels in 1995.
- His novel, Happy Sara (??? ??) was deemed obscene by the Supreme Court and is banned for teenagers.He made his literary debut in 1977, releasing six poems on a monthly basis on the recommendation of poet Park Doo-jin.
- Later in 1989, she created a sensation for her free sex discussion, including poems, roses, novels, and essays.
- In particular, the 1991 novel, " Happy Sarah, " has changed his life forever, creating a heated controversy over obscenity in our society.
- Sarah, a female college student, was arrested in 1992 on charges of producing and distributing obscene materials.
- His arrest was a classic cultural event that revealed aspects of the times, including freedom of expression and limits, the emergence of liberalism and the conflict of conservatism in the 1990s.
- He was dismissed from school in 1995 when the Supreme Court confirmed that he was sentenced to two years in prison and suspended execution.
- He returned to Yonsei University after receiving a special pardon in 1998, but after being disqualified in 2000, he changed his job.
- He returned to work in 2003 and retired in August 2016.
- However, he reportedly suffered from depression after a series of incidents.
- In 2011, the author published a novel titled " A Letter of Crazy Words " and " Youth of Beautiful Youth.
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