User:Ccmontgom/"Kim Yong-ik"

This is a Korean name the family name is Kim.

Kim Yong-ik (born in 1920) is a South Korean writer.

He was born in Choong-moo a South Korean seaport. Kim lived in Tokyo, where he studied English Literature at Aoyama Gabuin College. At the age of 28 he emigrated to the United States, to study English Literature at Florida Southern College. He later studied creative writing at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. From 1957 to 1964, Kim taught in Korean Universities, Ewha Womans (sic) University and Korea University. Kim returned to the United States in 1965 where, prior to his retirement in 1990, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Kim returned to Korea in spring of 1995 and suddenly passed away on April 11, 1995.

He has written, nonfiction, novels, essays, and collections of short stories. His stories have been published in Atlantic Monthly, The Hudson Review, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker. Two of his stories were included in Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories, and his short story Crown Dick (A rewrite of They Won't Crack it Open) was made into a PBS film, after winning the PEN Syndicated Short Fiction Project in 1984.

Kim's granddaughter is American classical pianist Angela Jia Kim.

WORKS
A Book Writing Venture (Essay)

The Sheep, Jimmy and I Gourd Hollow Dance (unfinished) Moon Thieves (Play)

Kim Yong Ik: short story writer (Essay) Home Again

Gourd Dance Song

The First Election

Blue in the Seed

The Gold Watch

The Smugglers Boat

After 17 Years

From Below the Bridge

From Here You Can See the Moon Mother's Birthday The Nun's Advice The Sea Girl The Seed Money The Sunny Side after the Harvest

The Taste of Salt

The Wedding Shoes

They Won't Crack it Open

Love in Winter (includes Love in Winter)

Moons of Korea

Crown Dick / Andy Crown

The Diving Gourd

The Happy Days

The Shoes from Yang San Valley

Village Wine