The Guinhoe (Korean: 구인회; Hanja: 九人會), or League of Nine, were a group of influential writers who initially lived and worked during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Founded on August 15, 1933, and ending sometime in 1937 with the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Guinhoe wrote works primarily advocating for artistic freedoms and social reforms with a largely modernist perspective.
[1] The view that the Guinhoe were completely modernist has been contested since the 1990s, however, as the group did not tend to espouse a coherent agenda or doctrine beyond an initial anti-Imperialist sentiment, unlike the KAPF.
Nonetheless, the general consensus view is that the Guinhoe broadly treasured the purity of literature and art for its own sake, in contrast to the KAPF's expressly pro-socialist agenda.
The group as a whole is depicted in fictionalized form primarily in the game's fourth chapter ("Canto IV"), with Dongrang and Dongbaek (based on Kim Yu-jeong) playing pivotal roles.