| Chu Yo-han | |
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| 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) |
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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.
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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]