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English interpreter and TI&E (troop information & education) officer for seven years until he was discharged in 1963. From 1977-2001 he
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and Choi was one of the first novelists to publish in that era. Consequently, it is regarded as having been the starting point for a new era in Korea's modern literature.
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which also focused tightly on issues of current politics in South Korea, particularly "the political decadence that culminated in the ouster of
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broke out in 1950, he took refuge with his family to South Korea aboard a U.S. Navy landing ship. He was admitted to the college of Law at
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