In 1931 Kang began publishing her writing ("P'ag ŭm" or Broken Zither, 1931[REF]), and moved to Manchuria as a newlywed, married to a communist who had divorced his first wife.
On April 26, 1944, one month after her mother died,[REF] Kang Kyŏng-ae died at her home in Hwanghae Province.