Chu Yo-han

This is a Korean name; the family name is Chu.

Chu Yo-han
Hangul	주요한
Hanja	朱耀翰
Revised Romanization	Ju Yo-han
McCune–Reischauer	Chu Yohan
Pen name
Hangul	송아
Hanja	頌兒
Revised Romanization	Songa
McCune–Reischauer	Song'a
Japanese name: Matsumura Kōichi (松村紘一?)

Chu Yo-han (14 October 1900 - 17 November 1979) was a twentieth-century Korean poet. He was born in Pyongyang, under what was then the Joseon Dynasty. He attended elementary school in Pyongyang, and then middle school at the Meiji Academy in Japan. He graduated from Hogang College in Shanghai in 1925.

Chu began publishing his poems in 1919. Around 1920, his poem "Fireworks" appeared, contributing significantly to the development of Korean poetry with its use of free verse, borrowed from French poets.

He edited Contemporary Korean Poetry (University of Iowa Press: Ames, 1970), which contains his translated poem " A spring dream passes."

Chu is also remembered for having compiled the complete works of Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, an important figure in the Korean independence movement.

After death

He achieved basic stage in Korean modern poems with Kim uk. Additionally, several hymns are composed by him, which contributed development church music of Korea.

In 1979, South Korean government conferred on him posthumously honors of Rose of Sharon.^[1]

References

1. ^ "김덕련, 발굴/ 주요 친일명단 120명 중 34명 해방후 훈·포장·표창 서훈 - 김성수는 2등급, 유관순은 3등급" 《Ohmynews》 (2005.8.31)

External links

• The Song-A Literature Foundation

See also

• List of Korean language poets
• Korean poetry

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Name	Chu, Yo-han
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Date of birth	14 October 1900
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Date of death	17 November 1979
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