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The novel 'Song of the Sword' and 'Namhan Mountain Fortress' writer Kim Hoon dealt with the story of Ahn Jung-geun, a young man he wanted to write for a long time as a novel.
It melted the passion and human concerns of not a hero, but a citizen of the times.
Reporter Lee Joo-sang introduces this.
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On October 26, 1909, 30-year-old Ahn Jung-geun shot the heart of imperialism at Harbin Station in North Manchuria, where the cold air fell.
The novel Harbin focuses on this historical moment and space.
Rather than focusing on Ahn Jung-geun's entire life, he focused on the short and intense days before and after the assassination of Hirobumi Ito.
Intersecting the paths of Ahn Jung-geun and Ito, the two characters on their way to the historic site of Harbin are detailed.
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Writer Hoon Kim has wanted to write this novel since he was young.
[Kim Hoon/Writer: I came to read the Ahn Jung-geun newspaper report written by the Japanese.
It gave me a shock when I was young.]
Human suffering as a head of a family and a Catholic believer is an important axis of the novel.
[Kim Hoon/Writer: I was trying to draw a personal image as if listening to his words as if a young man named Ahn Jung-geun was standing next to him and hearing something about his worries, not a hero.
] Through this, he conveyed the hope that he would like to revive the hot but chaotic period to the present.
[Kim Hoon/Writer: Thinking (Ito Hirobumi) as his enemy, he shot and killed him, and with that he did not fulfill the mission of the time, and the cause of peace in the East he advocated is still alive today.
] The life of young Ahn Jung-geun is solidly reconstructed with a unique writing method that adds imagination and takes a short breath.
(Video editing: Kim Byung-jik, CG: Shim Soo-hyun, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)