Kang Hun, children’s writer in North Korea, was active afterLiberation. His posthumous literary status (he died in 1950) is dulyrecognized as many collected works after Sanmakjip, the firstcollection of his writings, attest it. Sanmakjip provides an outline alongwhich we can understand the origin and development of the children’sliterature in South Korea. The children’s literature in South Koreadiversified itself outside the central control. Some of them cannot bemore different from the contemporary Korean literature notorious forits typical partisan ideology. However, after Adongmunhwasa Event,another Eunghyang Event, the children’s literature in South Korea lostits original verve and variety only to repeat fusty conventions. KangHun was not an exception. He and his works are historicallysignificant. For they were in the very middle of the turmoil whichstifled the polyphonic voice of North Korean children’s literature withthe despotic dogma. Kang Hun is a tragic case of a writer who had hisgenius deflowered in the colonial period but whose failures wereaddressed only in North Korea after Liberation.