Yom, Mu-ung

Born in 1941 in Sokcheo, Gang’won Province, Yom Mu-ung studied German literature (BA and MA) at Seoul National University. He made his literary debut with the selection of his work in the annual contest hosted by the daily Kyunghyang Shinmun in 1964. He joined the editorial board of the Quarterly Changbi (Changjak-kwa-Bipyong) in 1968 and served as the head of Changbi Publishers, Inc. The head of Association of Writers for National Literature. He has authored literary criticism collections Literature in an Age of the Masses, The Self-Examination of Korean Literature, A Logic of Literature Formulated in an Age of Chaos, and Time on Sand. Currently, he is a professor at Yeungnam University.