Kim Yu-jeong

Kim Yu-jeong was a Korean short-story writer whose fiction found humour in the difficult lives of rural people under Japanese colonial rule. Born in 1908, he came from Chuncheon and died in 1937. His work draws on village life, poverty and the awkward relationships of ordinary people. His stories include Bombom, also translated as Spring, Spring.

His connection to the countryside extended beyond writing. In Chuncheon he organised village associations and evening classes as part of a rural education movement. KBS's author profile connects his literary settings with those experiences. His stories combine comic situations with material hardship, preserving a view of everyday Korean life through characters rather than a formal political history. [KBS author profile](https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/contents_view.htm?board_seq=469308&lang=g).