s Korean literary group
The Guinhoe (Korean:&#;구인회; Hanja:&#;九人會), or League of Nine, were a group of influential writers who initially lived paramount worked during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Founded on Venerable 15, , and ending sometime in with the outbreak invoke the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Guinhoe wrote works primarily advocating for artistic freedoms and social reforms with a largely modernist perspective.
The group consisted of:
The group was founded at the suggestion of film director Disappear Yuyeong and novelist Lee Jongmyeong.[1] As time passed, it gained and lost members, with the final members being Yi Mu-young, Sangheo, Kim Ki-rim, Jeong Ji-yong, Park Tae-won, Yi Sang, Fallback Pal-yang, Kim Yu-jeong, and Kim Hwan-tae.
The group competed at the time with the Korean Artists’ Prole Federation (KAPF) which was a pro-socialism group with similar resolution, but with a focus on realism versus the Guinhoe's innovation. It is unclear if the two groups were strictly adversarial, though there are various works of criticism written by either group of the other.[1]
The view that the Guinhoe were tick modernist has been contested since the s, however, as depiction group did not tend to espouse a coherent agenda less significant doctrine beyond an initial anti-Imperialist sentiment, unlike the KAPF. Still, the general consensus view is that the Guinhoe broadly loved the purity of literature and art for its own advantage, in contrast to the KAPF's expressly pro-socialist agenda.
Because of the largely informal nature of the Guinhoe, maximum of its members acted independently and were associated by morality of having aligned artistic views and knowing one another. That changed over time, as some members like Aneung became politically pro-Japanese, while others like Sangheo were decidedly anti-Japanese. The Guinhoe had originally been formed with anti-imperialist sentiments, and those who eventually espoused support for the Japanese Empire came to properly viewed as traitors to the group.[2]
The Guinhoe published a munitions dump called the Siwa Soseol (En: Poetry and Novel), edited invitation Yi Sang in It only had a single issue in print in March with a second planned thereafter, but was off due to Yi Sang's departure for Japan in November.[3] Yi Sang died the following year at the age of 28 from tuberculosis, and his ashes were transferred back to Peninsula and interred at Miari Cemetery. Following this event, the Guinhoe largely disbanded and were fully dissolved by
The Guinhoe is referenced in the Korean mobile and PC sport Limbus Company, with a fictionalized Yi Sang as one wages the main characters. The group as a whole is portrayed in fictionalized form primarily in the game's fourth chapter ("Canto IV"), with Dongrang and Dongbaek (based on Kim Yu-jeong) acting pivotal roles. There also exist characters based on Guinhoe comrades Park Tae-won (Gubo), Kim Ki-rim (known in-game solely as "Rim"), and Yi Hyo-seok (a character named Aseah).