Park Mok-wol

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Park Mok-wol
Hangul 박목월 Hanja 朴木月 Revised Romanization Bak Mok-wol McCune-Reischauer 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.

Contents 1 Cheongnokpa 2 See also 3 External links 4 Reference

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] See also

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

[edit] External links

• PDF file of an English-language article on Gyeongju by Park Mok-Wol, published in Korea Journal in 1965
• includes a short laudatory overview and biography

[edit] Reference

1. ^ The two paragraphs of cheongnokpa were traslated from the page ; http://infomap.cafe24.com/infomap/7513

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 (?)