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Kim Geon (1912 – ?) was a Korean playwright who was mainly active during the Japanese colonial period. His real name was Kim Chang-gi.

Life
He was from Gyeongseongbu. After studying theater in Japan, he returned to Korea and worked as a writer of new dramas from the mid-1930s.

When the Dongyang Theater, a permanent theater, was opened in 1935, he was hired as an exclusive writer for the theater, and wrote a script for a popular play performed by the Dongyang Theater's exclusive theater companies, Huxi-seon and Youth Jwa. The Oriental Theater, which includes Ahn Jong-hwa, Lee Seo-hyang, Hanno-dan, and Hong Hae-sung in the production department, was very popular, and Kim Geon also made his name as a popular writer along with Kim Tae-jin, Park Young-ho, Park Jin, Song Young, Lee Seo-gu, Lee Un-bang, and Lim Sun-kyu, who are exclusive writers of the Oriental Theater.

At the end of the Japanese colonial period, a controlled theater contest was held under the auspices of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, and Kim Geon wrote "New Festival" on the theme of patriotism through food production as an entry for the second competition held in 1943. In 2009, it was included in the theater/film category among the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary selected by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs.

After liberation, he joined the Joseon Proletarian Theater Alliance formed by left-wing theater artists and adapted the original Maxim Gorky's "Mother" for a while, and in 1946, he established a theater and failed to operate it, so he wrote many works as a playwright of commercial theater. It is thought that he was missing and abducted by North Korea in the early days of the Korean War.

There are Japanese one-act play "Park," which satirizes early marriage customs, "Twin March" (1936), which was performed by Dongyang Theater's comedy troupe, and "38 Tears" created after liberation. It is characterized by cute comedies and popular melodrama.

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