Kim Sang-ok

Kim Sang-ok
Hangeul	김상옥
Hanja	金相 沃
Revised Romanization	Gim Sang-ok
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Sangok
See also : Korean name

Kim Sang-ok (born March 15, 1920 in T'ongyŏng , Kyŏngsangnam-do , † October 31, 2004 ) was a South Korean poet .

Life

Kim Sang-ok (writer's name: Ch'ojŏng [초정 | 草 汀 | 艸 汀 | 草 丁]) was born on March 15, 1920 in T'ongyŏng, Kyŏngsangnam-do. In 1938 he founded the magazine Gerste (맥 | 麥) together with Kim Yong-ho (김용호 | 金 容 浩), Ham Yun-su (함윤수 | 咸 允 洙) and others , in which he wrote the poems Das Sandkorn (모래알) and Das Teahouse (다방) published. In the same year his poems appeared in the magazine Sprössling (아 | 芽). His Sijo Balsamine (봉선화) was published in the magazine Literatur ( Literatur ) in 1939 . In 1941 he won a literary competition with his poem Laub (낙엽).

During the Japanese colonial rule , Kim was charged with "intellectual offenses" and imprisoned several times. After the liberation of Korea, he taught at Masan High School , Pusan ​​Girls ' High School, and Kyŏngnam Girls' High School . In 1956 he founded the Tongyŏng Writers Association (통영 문인 협회).

Kim began his literary career as a poet from Sijo , but after the liberation he added free verse to his repertoire. His early works are characterized by the poet's brooding attitude towards the world. Instead of trying to influence the exchange, his early poems like serve Paek Cha-bu (백자 부) and winter (입동) as a passive reflection of the world. This passivity intensifies in the collection of poems The Song of the Plateau (고원 (故園) 의 곡) into a kind of East Asian subtlety. His poetic world is also a world of lyric poetry, moonlight, bottle gourds and hairbands; it is a world in which the poet tries to overcome the violence of the past through the silence in his heart.

With this traditional poetry as the basis of his Sijo, Kim uses clear and subtle language to express his desire to release the life energies hidden behind extreme appearances. In 1963, Kim tried to modernize his sijo, both the three-line and the three-stanza sijo.

Work

Korean

Poetry collections

• 초적 (草 笛) The pipe made of reeds (1947)
• 고원 (故園) 의 곡 The Song of the Plateau (1949)
• 이단 (異端) 의 시 (詩) Heretical Poems (1949)
• 의상 (衣裳) clothing (1953)
• 목석 (木石) 의 노래 The Song of Trees and Stones (1956)
• 근작 삼행시 초 (近作 三行 詩 抄) Selection of current three-line lines (1968)
• 묵 (墨) 을 갈다 가 While I was rubbing the ink stone (1980)

Awards

• 1995: 보관 문화 훈장 ( Pogwan Order for Cultural Merit )
• 1995: 중앙 시조 대상 ( Chungang Sijo Prize )
• 1995: 노산 문학상 ( Nosan Literature Prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 김상옥 Retrieved February 25, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ 김상옥 :: 네이버 인물 검색 , (Korean), accessed March 3, 2014
3. ↑ 다음 백과 사전: 김상옥  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 25, 2014 (Korean)  
4. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Kang Kyung Aae ( Memento of the original from June 7, 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 on February 25, 2014 

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, Sang-ok is the first name.