Kim Chi-ha

Kim Chi-ha
Korean spelling
Hangeul	김지하
Hanja	金 芝 河
Revised Romanization	Gim Ji-ha
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Chiha
See also : Korean name

Kim Chi-ha (born February 4, 1941 in Mŏkp'o in the province of South Chŏlla ) is a South Korean writer.

Life

His real name is Kim Yŏng-il ( 김영일 , 金 英 一 ). During middle school, his father got a job in Wonju and Kim changed schools. After graduating from Chungdong High School in Seoul, he began studying aesthetics at Seoul National University in 1959 . A year later, the subject of aesthetics was transferred to the humanities faculty. In the new faculty he took part in a theater group and soon joined the student movement . For this reason, his studies were not straightforward, he was given leave of absence, re-enrolled, excluded for an indefinite period, and re-accepted. In 1964 in particular, he took part in the demonstration against the subservient diplomacy of the Park Chung-hee regime towards Japan , was arrested and spent four months in Sŏdaemun Prison. The 70s were the most intense and difficult times for him. After his debut with The Way of the Yellow Earth in 1969, he was convicted several times for his publications. B. in connection with the case of the Five Bandits , the case of vulgar language , the case of the Democratic Student Union and the case of 1974 . He spent a total of seven years in prison. He was even sentenced to death for allegedly violating the National Security Act and inciting civil war . His case became an international scandal and sparked a worldwide movement for his amnesty . In 1975 the Afro-Asian Writers' Conference decided to award him the Lotus Prize and sent President Park a letter demanding Kim's release.

He was finally released in 1980 thanks to sustained protests led by domestic and foreign intellectuals. A year later he received the Lotus Prize and at the same time the Bruno Kreisky Prize for his services to human rights . In the same year he also became the World Congress of Poets with the price as The Great Poet crowned. 22 years after the publication of the first volume of poetry, he published With Burning Thirst in 1982 . This was followed by several volumes such as Five Bandits , Erin , Black Mountain, White Room , Looking Up to the Star Field and The Agony of the Middle .

After his release, he began to reinterpret ancient teachings and traditional Korean culture and promoted the spiritual movement for coexistence and peace that seeks a new light for civilization and an alternative. This change in the way of thinking of Kim Chi-ha, which can be described as the philosophy of life, was expressed in concrete terms in the essay volumes Life , Plea for Ongchi , Beloved and in the text Netzmich von der Lebensbewegung . His "Philosophy of Life" developed into the Yullyŏ doctrine and "Movement for the New Man". The Yullyŏ Scientific Society was founded by him.

Work

Korean

Volumes of poetry

• 황토 ( Yellow Earth ) Seoul: Hanŏlmungo, 1970
• 타는 목마름 으로 ( With a burning thirst ) Seoul: Ch'angjak-kwa pip'yŏng, 1982
• 검은 산 하얀 방 ( Black Mountain, White Room ) Seoul: Pundosa, 1986
• 애린 1․2 ( Erin 1, 2 ) Seoul: Silch'ŏn munhaksa, 1986
• 이 가문 날 에 비구름 ( rain cloud on dry day ) 1988
• 별 밭을 우러 르며 ( looking up at the starry canopy ) Seoul: Sol, 1989
• 생명 ( Life ) Sol, 1992
• 중심 의 괴로움 ( The Agony of Middle ) Seoul: Sol, 1994
• 대설, 남 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ( Big Count, In the South 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ) Seoul: Sol, 1994
• 꽃 과 그늘 - 서정시 100 선 ( Flower and Shadow - 100 Poetry ) Seoul: Silch'ŏn munhaksa, 1999
• 마지막 살의 그리움 ( Longing for the human ) Miraesa, 2002
• 유목 과 은둔 ( Nomad and Hermit Life ) Ch'angbi, 2004

Essay volumes

• 김지하 의 화두 ( Themes Kim Chi-has ) Hwanam, 2003
• 생명 과 평화 의 길 ( Way of Life and Peace ) Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 2005

Translations

German

• Blossom envy (Wallstein, 2005) ISBN 978-3-89244-985-0
• With a burning thirst: poems and prose (R. Seewann Verlag, 1976)
• Rising of the bud (Abera, 2006) ISBN 978-3-934376-66-3
• The yellow earth and other poems (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1983) ISBN 978-3-518-11059-1
• Living / White Room / Hatching / With a burning thirst / Done (in: die horen , magazine for literature, art and criticism, 41 vol., 4/96)

English

• Heart's Agony-Selected Poems Chiha (Buffalo / New York. White Pine Press, 1995)

Awards

• 2011 - minesang
• 2006 - Manhae Prize
• 2005 - Prize for the best poem and poetry
• 2003 - Kongch'o Literature Prize
• 2002 - Taesan Literature Prize
• 2002 - Manhae Literature Prize
• 2002 - Chŏng Chi-yong Literature Prize
• 1981 - Prize for new poets in the international poetry community, Bruno Kreisky Prize
• 1975 - Lotus special award from the Asian-African authors' community

Web links

• Biography of Kim Chi-ha on the website of the Berlin International Literature Festival

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 김지하 , accessed January 20, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Kim Chi-ha ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 3, 2013. 
3. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Kim Chi-ha ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 3, 2013 (Korean). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Chi-ha is the first name.