Ri Ki-yong

Ri Ki-yong (; May 6, 1896 – August 9, 1984) or Lee Gi-yeong was a Korean novelist. 1926, he served as an editor of Light of Joseon (Joseon jigwang), an organ of the Korean Communist Party and a journal promoting proletarian literature. Ri Ki-yong spent more than two years in jail.

After liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Ri moved to North Korea where he was key in creating the orthodox position on literature in North Korea, serving for several years in a key position in North Korean Federation of Literature and Arts. He is reported to have died in August 1988. repeatedly came across experienced school teachers of literature who would claim, for instance... that New Spring in Seokkaeul was written by Lee Gi-yeong. The equivalent of this in Western literature would be to mistake a poem of William Shakespeare for that of Rudyard Kipling.