Yi Sang (1910-1937) was a painter, architect, and writer of 1930s Korea, when the Korean peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. Yi Sang wrote in both Korean and Japanese until his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 27, after imprisonment by Japanese police for thought crimes in Tokyo.
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