Park Wan-Suh (1931-2011) – Korean writer born in Gaepung-gun county.
She graduated from a girls’ high school and entered Seoul National University, but the outbreak of the Korean War and the death of her brother forced her to quit her studies. In 1970, at the age of forty, she wrote her first novel, Namok (The Naked Tree), a memoir of her experiences during the Korean War. Park Wan-suh’s writing career developed rapidly; she published a total of over a dozen novels and ten collections of short stories. In her realistic works, she addressed the problems of the contemporary Korean family and the position of women. She boldly criticized the hypocrisy of the representatives of the middle class. In 1980s feminist thought was prominent in her works: in The Beginning of Days and The Dreaming Incubator, she described the difficulties women face in a patriarchal society where they are treated as reproductive machines.
Park Wan-Suh wrote, among others, a two-volume collection of novellas, Matczyna droga , and the Polish translation of her novel Meeting at the Airport was published in second issue of “Literatura na Świecie” magazine.