Born on January 15, 1923 , Goesan, Chungcheongbuk – do, South Korea. His real name is Han Gan Nam (한간남,韓看南) . Religion is Buddhism . After graduating from Cheongju Commercial High School in 1941, he studied in Japan and attended the Department of Philosophy at Chuo University . He was conscripted as a student soldier in 1944 and served as a driver until his liberation . This experience is reflected in the ‘alone trilogy’. After liberation , he attended the Department of French Language and Literature at Seoul National University after graduating from Kyungsung University in 1946, and then dropped out in 1949 to become a screenwriter.
He began working as a screenwriter for the film ‘To The Last Day’ (1960), as well as the ‘Alone Trilogy’ of stories ‘The Sea Knows’ (1961), ‘The Sea Says Nothing’ and ‘Winners and Losers’. The director Kim Ki Young decided to turn ‘The Sea Knows’ into a movie and it also appeared as a TV drama. Another well known film is ‘Red Scarf’ 1964 which Han Un Sa wrote the scenario of. Later, he wrote an autobiographical essay, ‘The History of Clouds’.
In particular, the exciting trilogy is an autobiographical work that incorporates the artist’s own military experience, and alone (아로운, 阿魯雲) itself is no different than Han Un Sa himself , and deals with the military life in the 6th quarter of the 13th unit automobile company.
He had four sons, and the youngest of them was Han Sang Won, a guitarist.
For reference, in the autobiography of Han Woonsa ‘The History of Clouds’. Jiro Mori, who appears as a villain, is a real person, and the name of the original real person is Mori. The fellow solider mentioned Ji Ha Ra (a second class soldier) of the air force is also modelled off a real person Cheon Eung Ryul.
(Source: namuwiki)