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{{Short description|South Korean novelist (1942–2022)}}
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'''Bang Young-ung''' ({{Korean|hangul=방영웅}}; 20 July 1942 – 31 August 2022) was a South Korean novelist whose works focus on affectionately portraying the lives of ordinary people in contemporary South Korea.<ref>"방영웅" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: {{cite web|url=http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# |title=Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute |access-date=2013-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archive-date=2013-09-21 }}</ref>

==Life==
Bang Yeong-ung was born on 20 July 1942 in [[Yesan]], [[Chūseinan-dō]], [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea, Empire of Japan]]. He graduated from [[Whimoon High School]] and made his debut with "The Story of Bullye", published in the journal Creation and Criticism (Changjak gwa bipyeong) in 1967.

Bang died on 31 August 2022, at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=ko:일제시대 농촌 현실 그린 '분례기' 작가 방영웅씨 별세 |url=https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/obituary/1057021.html |access-date=1 September 2022 |publisher=Hani}}</ref>

==Work==
Bang made his literary debut in 1968 with the novel ''The Story of Bullye'' ({{Korean|hangul=분례기|labels=no}}) which was also made into a movie.<ref>{{cite book | last=Kim  | first=Kyoung-wook  | title= Korean Film Directors: Yu Hyun-mok | location=Seoul | publisher=Seoul Selection | year=2008 | isbn= 978-8991913332}}</ref>  Later novels include ''Moon'' (달, 1971), ''Stone Driven In and Stone Pulled Out'' (박힌돌과 뽑힌돌, 1980), and ''Keumjo Mountain'' (금조산, 1992).  His early work focuses on rural life, but in the 1970s he shifted toward town and city milieux.

Bang deals with the lives of lower middle-class and working-class Koreans. His works from 1960s tend to be set in rural communities while those from 1970s have urban settings, but the characters they portray are basically similar: simple-hearted, tenacious people who may not emerge victorious, but who endure, like hearty wildflowers, lives filled with inconsolable sorrows and formidable adversities. In particular, the rural characters he sketches often find it impossible to accept any other life than the one they have always known; for this reason, they are tragically left behind in a rapidly changing world. A degree of fatalism can be detected in "The Story of Bullye" (Bullyegi, 1967) and The Moon (Dal), but certain hopefulness persists throughout the body of Bang Yeong-ung's work.<ref>"Bang Yeong-ungi" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: {{cite web|url=http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# |title=Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute |access-date=2013-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archive-date=2013-09-21 }}</ref>

==Works in Korean==
<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Korean Literature|chapter=Bang, Young-Ung|pages=22–24|author=Lee, Kyung-ho|publisher=Hollym|location=Seoul|year=1996|isbn=1-56591-066-4}}</ref>

'''Novels'''
* The Story of Bullye (1968)
* Stone Driven In and Stone Pulled Out (1992)
* Keumjo Mountain (1992)
'''Short Stories'''
* Tales of Life (1974)
* First Snow (1976)

==Awards==

* [[Hankook Ilbo Literary Award]] (1969)

==See also==
{{portal|Novels}}
*[[List of Korean novelists]]
*[[Korean literature]]
*[[Contemporary culture of South Korea]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{in lang|ko}} [http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=769967 Naver Encyclopedia entry]

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[[Category:1942 births]]
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[[Category:South Korean novelists]]
[[Category:Whimoon High School alumni]]
[[Category:People from Yesan County]]
[[Category:Onyang Bang clan|Young-ung]]