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Lee Seo-hyang (born 1915 – ?) is a Korean playwright. His real name is Lee Young-soo.

Life
While studying at Nippon University in Japan, he formed a theater company with Ahn Young-il and Lee Hwa-sam to start a theater movement. After returning to Korea, he participated in the Drama Research Association and worked.

In 1933, Dong-A Ilbo elected "The Place Across the Embankment" to officially appear in the Dong-A Ilbo's New Spring Literature. There is a play "Mother," which was released in 1936 as a representative work and a successful work, and the novel "Night car" (1936) and "First Acting" (1937) were also left. The trend of works focuses on the perception of contradictions in colonial reality and has a class literary character, but there is a limitation in that complete class literature or modern perception has not been reached.

At the end of the Japanese colonial period, he participated in the Cooperative Arts Center, a pro-Japanese theater group, and engaged in pro-Japanese activities. In 1942, Park Young-ho's "Mountain Pig" was directed and submitted at the first theater competition sponsored by the Governor-General of Joseon, and Park Young-ho's "Chorus of Stars" and Lim Sun-kyu's "At the Ivory Tower" at the third theater competition held in 1945. In 2008, it was included in the theater/film category of the list of prospective people selected by the Institute for National Affairs.

After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, he joined the Joseon Literary Alliance and served as the chairman of the theater department, and founded the Joseon Theater Construction Headquarters and the Joseon Theater Alliance

In 1948, he participated in the inter-Korean joint meeting held in Pyongyang, but remained north of the 38th parallel and became a North Korean writer. From the time of liberation in 1945 to Wolbuk, he did not release plays and worked as a director. Theater works directed during this period include Park No-ah's "March 1 Movement and Manju Old Man" (1946), "Nokdu General" (1946), and Ham Se-deok's "Taebaek Mountain Range" (1947), as well as translated plays "Southern Front" (1945) and "Brain" (1946).

There is a theory that he served as the president of the National Art Theater in North Korea after North Korea's reunification, but in 1959, he was purged as a member of the retroist sect along with the Shin Go -song.

family
Composer Lee Ho-seop is the younger brother, and his wife is Baek Nan-young, the eldest daughter of Baek In-je. The remaining family members of South Korea argued that the song "Bau Pass," widely known as a song written and composed by Lee Heung-ryul, was originally written by Lee Seo-hyang, but could not reveal this fact because he was a North Korean writer.

Reference

 * Lee Jae-myung, "Pro-Japanese Theater from the Activities of the Joseon Theater Culture Association" (Workshop in the second half of 2005)
 * Lee Jae-myung, "Pro-Japanese Theater from the Activities of the Joseon Theater Culture Association" (Workshop in the second half of 2005)