In 1974, Kim Chiha was sentenced to death for violating the National Security Act and instigating rebellion.
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Born in the southwestern province of Cholla, Kim Chiha is known for being a critic that played a large role in the Pak regime.
Suh traces the origins of minjung theology to the March First Movement of 1919, an independence movement triggered by the end of World War I and the death of King Kojong, the last king of the Yi Dynasty.
Shin was influenced by older-generation activist poets, so-called "poets of the masses" (minjung shiin), such as Kim Nam-ju and Shin Kyeong-nim, and genuinely anguished over the problem of the path literature should take in society and history.