'Historical drama master' writer Jeong Ha-yeon passes away... Wrote ‘The King and the Rain’, ‘Empress Myeongseong’, etc.

Writer Jeong Ha-yeon, who wrote major historical dramas such as 'The King and the Rain' and 'Empress Myeongseong', passed away on the 1st. Age 82.

According to the Writers' Association of Korea and the bereaved family, author Jeong passed away this afternoon.

Born in Hwanghae-do in 1944, the deceased graduated from Yonsei University's Theater and Drama Arts Research Group, and debuted in 1968 when 'Sanullim' won the Spring Literary Contest in the one-act play category.

In the same year, 'Rainbow Falls' was selected as the winner of the Best New Play Award contest by the magazine 'Generation' and the Experimental Theater, and the following year, 'Murder of Fantasy' was selected as the winning play in a contest by the National Theater and the Kyunghyang Shinmun, drawing attention in the theater world.

In the 1970s, he wrote many movie screenplays, including 'A Love Story' (1971), 'Dating Class' (1971), and 'That's You' (1974), starring and directed by actor Shin Seong-il, as well as 'The Horse and the Lady' (1976) and 'The Bottom of the 9th Inning of Glory' (1977).

Starting with 'Jang Noksu' (1995), he continued to produce large-scale hit historical dramas such as 'Jo Gwang-jo' (1996), 'The King and the Rain' (1998-2000), 'Empress Myeongseong' (2001-2002), 'Shin Don' (2005-2006), and 'Dae In-su' (2011-2012), making him a 'master of historical dramas'. established itself.

In addition, it was also loved as a popular drama that dealt with human desire and destruction, without any obstacles for success, such as 'Desire on the Sand' (1992), 'Sea of ​​Desire' (1997), and 'Flame of Desire' (2010).

Works that depict the characters' delicate emotions, such as 'Wife' (2003), which depicts a husband who has two wives due to memory loss, and 'Sweet Life' (2008), which conveys the value of life through a middle-aged couple in crisis and wavering youth, also attracted attention.

From 2004 to 2005, he wrote the first part of the EBS cultural history series, 'The Count of Myeongdong', and the third part, 'Still Horse Chestnuts', which unraveled the society and university scene at the time, focusing on cultural artists who loved Myeong-dong in Seoul, poet Kim Ji-ha, novelist Kim Seung-ok, and student activist Kim Jung-tae, who were young people in the 1960s.

The last work he wrote as a writer was the 2018 MBC drama ‘Let’s Hold Hands and Watch the Sunset’.

In 1979, he received the Dong-A Theater Award Special Award and the Baeksang Arts Award for Play for 'Road of Horse Chestnuts'. For 'The King and the Rain', he won the Writer's Award at the 'KBS Drama Awards' in 1999 and the Writer's Award at the Korean Broadcasting Producer Award in 2000.

The funeral will be held in room 5 of the funeral hall at Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Seoul from 9 a.m. on the 2nd. The funeral is scheduled for the 4th.