Kim Ok (poet), Date of Birth

    

Kim Ok (poet)

Korean poet and translator

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1893

Profession: Esperantist

Nationality: North Korea

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Kim Ok (poet)

  • Kim Ok (Korean: ??; 1896–unknown) was a Korean poet.
  • He is one of the representative poets who led the early modernism movement in the Korean poetry scene, translating Western poetry and poetics and writing his own poetry.
  • He published the first collection of translated poetry Onoeui mudo (??? ?? Dance in Agony) (1921) and the first modern poetry collection Haepariui norae (???? ?? The Song of Jellyfish) (1923).
  • He taught Kim Sowol as his student, and the two of them composed folk-poetry.

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