- Baek Sok
Infobox Korean name
context=north
hangul=백기행
hanja=白夔行
rr=Baek Gi-haeng
mr=Paek Kihaeng
hangulho=백석
hanjaho=白石 "also" 白奭
rrho=Baek Seok
mrho=Paek SŏkBaek Sok (
July 1 1912 - c. January 1995), born Paek Kihaeng, was aNorth Korea n poet.He was born in
Chŏngju inNorth Pyongan , and made his literary debut in 1936 with a collection of poems entitled "Deer" (사슴, "Sasŭm"). Thereafter he published about 50 more pieces, but is not believed to have produced another collection of poems. He enjoyed making use of the uniquePyongan dialect in his writing, but after thedivision of Korea , the dialect-suppression policies of North Korea prevented him from being very active.In South Korea, the publication of his works was prohibited since he was a North Korean poet, but he was widely re-evaluated after his works were first introduced to the South in 1987. He is now regarded as having opened a new face of
Korean modernism from his own perspective, while usingPyongbuk dialect and relics of the past as his subject matter and founding his work on local sentiment.South Koreans long believed that Baek Sok had died on a collective farm in 1963. However, recently it was revealed that he lived until 1995. [ [http://www.hani.co.kr/section-009100003/2001/04/009100003200104302201001.html 시인 백석, 1995년까지 생존] ]
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See also
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List of Korean language poets
*Korean literature
*Culture of North Korea
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