Baek Sok
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| Baek Sok | |
|---|---|
| Pen name | |
| Hangul: | 백석 |
| Hanja: | 白石 also 白奭 |
| Revised Romanization: | Baek Seok |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Paek Sŏk |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul: | 백기행 |
| Hanja: | 白夔行 |
| Revised Romanization: | Baek Gi-haeng |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Paek Kihaeng |
Baek Sok (July 1, 1912 - c. January 1995), born Paek Kihaeng, was a North Korean poet.
He was born in Chŏngju in North 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 unique Pyongan dialect in his writing, but after the division 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 Norht 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 using Pyongbuk 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. [1]
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Ko, Hyung-jin (1996). "Baek Sok", Who's who in Korean literature. Seoul: Hollym, 19-21. ISBN 1565910664.
