The people who went down from above and up from below and down from above and up from below are the people who did not go up from below nor down from above nor up from below nor down from above.
Yi Sang (1910–1937) was born Kim Haekyŏng and lived his entire life during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He wrote and published in both Korean and Japanese, and is one of Korea’s most important modernist writers. A book collecting his work in translation is forthcoming from Wave Books