Korean Drama Under Japanese Occupation
Ch’i-jin Yu (1905-1974) is one of the most important modern playwrights in Korea. He wrote more than forty plays and directed nearly one hundred. Ch’i-jin Yu was one of the first Korean playwrights to publicly voice anti-Japanese sentiments in his plays. Man-sik Ch’ae (1902-1950), though not the leading force of the Korean theater, is arguably the most intriguing writer of the colonial period. His Memorial Day is now considered one of the representative plays of that period.Jinhee Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean/Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her principal research interests and publications focus on world drama, modern Korean Literature, and Korean American literature.