Park Mok-wol

Infobox Korean name
hangul=박목월
hanja=朴木月
rr=Bak Mok-wol
mr=Pak Mogwǒl

Park Mok-Wol (1916-1978) was a Korean writer. He was born in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, in present-day South Korea. He was a professor at Hanyang University beginning in 1961. He became president of the Korean Poetry Association in 1968. In fact, his birthname is Park Young Jong.

Cheongnokpa

He belonged to Cheongrok-pa which was group of 3 poets - Jo Ji Hoon, Park Du-Jin and himself. Cheongnokpa consists of mainly two words. Cheongnok(청록) refers to bluish-green color and pa means group or party.

In 1946, first collected poems were issued. Although the expression or preference is different from three of them, their poems largle had a basis on natural description and hope of humans. Considering these features, Seo Jeong-ju named them Nature party of poets. [The two paragraphs of cheongnokpa were translated from the page ; http://infomap.cafe24.com/infomap/7513]

ee also

*List of Korea-related topics
*List of Koreans
*Korean literature
*Korean poetry
*List of Korean language poets

External links

* [http://www.ekoreajournal.net/archive/detail.jsp?VOLUMENO=5&BOOKNUM=8&PAPERNUM=4&TOTALSEARCH=&AUTHORENAME=Park%20Mok-wol&PAPERTITLE=&KEYWORD=&PAPERTYPE=0&SUBJECT=0&STARTYEAR=1961&ENDYEAR=2003&LISTOPTION=1&KEYPAGE=10&PAGE=1 PDF file of an English-language article on Gyeongju by Park Mok-Wol, published in Korea Journal in 1965]
* [http://www.yongsan.seoul.kr/eng/culture/c_body.asp includes a short laudatory overview and biography]

References

Persondata
NAME=Park, Mok-wol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=박목월, 朴木月
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Korean writer
DATE OF BIRTH=1916-01-16
PLACE OF BIRTH=Gyeongju, Korea
DATE OF DEATH=1978-03-24
PLACE OF DEATH=Seoul, South Korea (?)