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Jang Deok-sun (Korean: 장덕순; July 9, 1921 – August 20, 1996) was a Korean literary scholar and essayist of Seoul National University. Jang has his familial roots in Uljin and his literary alias is Seongsan. Jang graduated from the Humanities Department of Yeonhee Professional School and the Korean Literature Department of Seoul National University. He then contributed to the studies of Korean literature, mythical and oral literature, and traditional Korean literature prior to the introduction of Western literary models in Korea. through the studies done in his first book, General Theory of Korean Literature (국문학통론). His work, History of Korean Literature (한국설화문학연구), includes the argument that although traditional literature written in Chinese characters can be included within the spectrum of the Korean literary tradition, there is a need to differentiate the literature before and after the creation of the Korean alphabet Hangul by King Sejong the Great in 1446.