Park Yŏng-han

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Park Yŏng-han
Hangeul 박영한
Hanja 朴榮漢
Revised
Romanization 		Yeong-han Park
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yŏnghan Park

Park Yŏng-han (born September 14, 1947 in Pusan , † August 23, 2006 in Koyang , Kyŏnggi-do ) was a South Korean writer .

Life

Park Yŏng-han was born on September 14, 1947 in Pusan, the fifth of eight children. He grew up in poverty and constantly struggled against his despair and an inferiority complex. After not being able to study at Korea University's law school - as intended - he wandered the country for three years, working as a simple laborer and living among prostitutes, pickpockets, vagabonds and other outcasts. He was eventually accepted into Yonsei University , but volunteered for the Vietnam War just two days after enrolling . Upon his return, he wrote the award-winning work The Distant Sông Ba River (머나 먼 쏭바강), based on his experiences from that war. The novel, which deals with various topics such as love, war, freedom, ideology and the importance of individual existence, sold over a hundred thousand copies and catapulted the hitherto unknown author into the ranks of prominence.

Park's works are largely inspired by his own experiences and can be divided into different thematic or stylistic groups. His novels Love in Umukpaemi (우묵 배미 의 사랑) and The Family of Wang Lung (왕룽 일가) are based on Park's experiences during his life on the outskirts of Seoul and represent the daily life of the common people in a realistic way during the modernization of Korea. The novels are written in a warm, descriptive and often funny language style, which is in contrast to the more concise writing style in The Far Away Sông Ba River . Although his themes are as varied as his life experiences, they seem to reflect a certain concern about the corruption of humanity by external forces, such as the ideological war in The Far Sông Ba River or the rural industrialization in love in Umukbaemi .

Work

Korean

Short stories

  • 지상 의 방 한 칸 A Room Above the Earth (1988)
  • 지옥 에서 보낸 한철 The Season I Spent In Hell (1988)

Novels

  • 인간 의 새벽 The Dawn of Mankind (1980)
  • 노천 에서 Under the Open Sky (1981)
  • 쓸쓸한 자유인 The Lonely Free (1983)
  • 열 아홉 의 날개 19 Swinging (1985)
  • 내 친구 빠삐용 My friend Papillon (1989)
  • 아라베스크 Arabesque (1990)

Film adaptations

  • 우묵 배미 의 사랑 Love in Umukpaemi (1990)

Awards

  • 1988 - 동인 문학상 ( Tongin Literature Prize )
  • 1978 - 오늘 의 작가상 ( Award for Today's Authors )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 박영한 Retrieved June 2, 2014 (Korean)
  2. ↑ 다음 백과 사전: 박영한  ( 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 June 2, 2014 (Korean)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 100.daum.net  
  3. ↑ Author Database of the LTI Korea: Park Yeonghan ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 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 June 2, 2014 (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eng.klti.or.kr
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, Yŏng-han is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Park, Yŏng-han
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Pusan
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2006
Place of death Koyang , Kyŏnggi-do