Moon Ye-bong

Moon Ye-bong (문예봉/文藝峰, born January 3, 1917 in Hamhung—died March 26, 1999) was a North Korean actress.

Moon Ye-bong
문예봉/文藝峰
Photograph of a Korean woman in a headscarf
Moon Ye-bong in 1932.
Born(1917-01-03)January 3, 1917
DiedMarch 26, 1999(1999-03-26) (aged 82)
OccupationActress

Biography

Her career began on the stage as an early teen, and by the early 1930s, she appeared in her first film: A Ferry Boat That Has No Owner (1932).[1]:352 Moon Ye-Bong was widely seen as representative of the "New Woman," or of modern Korean women.[2] By the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of the most popular actresses in Korea.[3]

She starred in many pro-Japanese films during the Japanese occupation of Korea.[1] In 1941, she starred in the Korean-made, Korean-language film Angels without a Home, which was about Korean street children; despite the fact that the Japanese occupiers had outlawed as a language of instruction except in primary schools, was supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education and shown widely in Japan.[4]

She migrated to North Korea in 1948.[1]:349 Moon Ye-Bong was in the second film ever made in North Korea, The Blast Furnace.[5] She starred in the 1954 film A Partisan Maiden as a communist guerilla fighting the Americans during the Korean War.[1]:350

While she received awards from the North Korean government during the 1950s, she fell victim to the political purges of 1969; in 1980, she was rehabilitated and named a "people's actress."[1]:352

Selected filmography
  • A Ferry Boat That Has No Owner (Imja eomneun narutbae, 1932)
  • Wanderer (Nageune, 1937)
  • Military Train (Gunyong yeolcha, 1938)
  • Tuition (Sueomnyo, 1940)
  • Volunteer (Jiwonbyeong, 1941)
  • Angels without a Home (1941)
  • Straits of Chosun (Joseon haehyeop, 1943)
  • My Home Village (Nae gohyang, 1949)
  • The Blast Furnace (Yonggwangno, 1950)
  • A Boy Partisan (Sonyeon ppalchisan, 1951)
  • A Partisan Maiden [A Partisan Woman] (Ppalchisan cheonyeo, 1954)
  • A Newly-Wed (Sinhon bubu, 1955)

References
  1. Lee, Yun-Jong (2020). "Mun Ye-bong, a Partisan Maiden in a "Partisan State"". Korea Journal. 60 (3): 349–370. doi:10.25024/KJ.2020.60.3.349.
  2. Song, Xiaoqian (2018). "Screening Life and Dreams" – via Ewha Women's University Library. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Jackson, Jr., Earl (10 November 2009). "The Medium as the Message: Cinematic Intertexuality in Im Kwon-taek's The General's Son". Silhouette. VII: 57–58 – via Google Books.
  4. High, Peter B. (2003). The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-299-18134-5.
  5. Lim Jang-won (2020-07-24). "Korea Film Museum reopens offline, featuring 12 North Korean movies". Korea Herald. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
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