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Sunwoo Hwi

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  • Sunwoo Hwi (1922–1986) came down from the north to the south in 1946 and worked as a journalist and teacher before enlisting in the South Korean army. He won the Dongin Literary Award in 1957 for his first short story, “Flames,” excerpted here. He was a prolific writer, publishing eighty books, including Flagman without a Flag (1959) and The Legend of Clovervale (1963), and nearly 1,000 essays.