ABSTRACT
황순원 (黃順元, 1915∼) published his first story in 1937 and continued writing through the 1980s; during his long literary career, Hwang Sunwŏn observed firsthand the suffering of ordinary Koreans under many different forms of oppression: colonialism, ideological strife, the Korean War, industrialisation, and military dictatorships. What he sought to capture was the resilience of the Korean spirit even in times of adversity, rather than the adversity itself, and the discovery of love and goodwill in unlikeliest of circumstances.
