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Bang In-geun (December 29, 1899 – January 1, 1975 ) was a South Korean novelist who worked during the Japanese colonial period. The pen name was Chunhae.

Life
Born in Yesan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, he graduated from Baejae High School in Gyeongseong-bu. After that, he left for Japan to study, went to Aoyama Academy, and majored in German literature at Chuo University.

After returning home from studying abroad, he spent his private money on the publication of the monthly literary magazine "Joseon Literature Group" presided over by Lee Kwang-soo. "Joseon Literature Group" was a base of pure literature against the trend literature of the Joseon Proletarian Artists' Alliance. He briefly taught while losing his family fortune through the management of the Joseon Literary Society, and worked mainly at the editorial office of media companies such as Christian Sinbo, Literary Public Opinion, New Life, and Sijo, or at the commission of a broadcasting company.

He appeared in the literary world by publishing the poem "The Sky and the Sea" (1923), but later devoted himself to creating novels and criticizing them. Until the 1920s, he published short stories in the field of pure literature, but in the 1930s, he wrote popular full-length novels serialized in newspapers. The works were published during this period by "The Strange Youth", "The Flavor of Mado", "The Wandering Cain", "Hwasim", "Ssanghongmu", and "Dawn Road".

Among them, he emerged as a representative popular writer leading popular literature during this period through serialization of "The Flavor of Mado" (1932) and "The Wandering Cain" (1933). The trend of work takes a popular melodrama form similar to popular novel writers in the 1930s. However, it has a unique aspect in that it does not feature a pure heroine such as Park Gye-ju or Kim Mal-bong, but deals with the issue of love and greed honestly and openly with a lumbar woman as the main character. A case in point is "The Wandering Cain," which drew much attention by writing based on the true story of Ahn Ki-young, a classmate of Bang In-geun's Gongju Yeongmyeong School, which was said to have expressed the affection between men and women in detail through the affair between vocalists and professors.

Due to his track record during the Pacific War at the end of Japanese colonial rule, he was selected for the literary category among the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary published in 2008.

After liberation, he showed a lot of interest in writing mystery novels, and was involved in film production and established and operated Chunhae Productions, named after his pen name. He also wrote the scenario for "The Young Wife" (1959). Directed by Lee Kang-cheon, this work is about the heroine, the concubine of an old artist, falling into an affair with a young artist, which is a common setting in Bang In-geun's feature novels.