Bang Hyeon seok

Bang was born in 1961 in Ulsan Korea, and has served as the president of Society of Young Writers For Understanding Vietnam, and he continues to devote much of his creative energy to exploring Vietnams troubled past. His debut was in 1988 with The Practice. Bang enrolled in the ChungAng Universitys Department of Creative writing in 1980 and later, under an assumed identity, worked as a laborer in Incheon. After leaving the factory in 1994 Bang collected history and information on democratic labor unions, a collection that informed some of his work including Off to Battle a Dawn. Bang has worked as a creative writing professor at ChungAng University, on the editorial board of Silcheonmunhak, and as the editorinchief of Asia Magazine of Asian Literature.

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