Park Nam-su
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Born | April 3, 1918 |
Died | September 17, 1994(1994-09-17) (aged 76) |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Alma mater | Chuo University, Seoul |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 박남수 |
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Revised Romanization | Bak Namsu |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Namsu |
Park Nam-su (Korean: 박남수; April 3, 1918 – September 17, 1994) was a South Korean poet.[1]
Park Nam-su was born on April 3, 1918, in Pyongyang, Heian'nan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan.[2] Park graduated from Chuo University, Tokyo, in 1941.[3] after graduating from Pyeongyang Soongin Industrial High School. Park also worked for the Pyeongyang branch of the Korean Colonial Bank, though he had already begun his writing career.[4]
Although Park was born in what would become North Korea, he emigrated to the South in 1951 and later to United States in 1973.[5]
Park died on September 17, 1994.[2]
The Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes Park Nam-su's contributions to Korean literature:
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