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Kim Suyeong Literary Award
The Kim Suyeong Literary Award is a literary award established in 1981 by Minumsa in honor of the South Korean poet Kim Su-yeong Kim Suyeong was a Korean poet. Life Kim Soo-young (1921–1968) was a Korean poet and translator whose poetry explored love and freedom as poetic and political ideals. Kim was born in Gwancheol-dong, Seoul on November 27, 1921. After gradua .... Prizewinners References {{reflist South Korean literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Literary Awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. International awards All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order) * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970 * International Botev Prize – since 1972 * The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979 * America Award – since 1994 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001 * Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001 * Ovid Prize – since 2002 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 * European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Paris Literary Prize – since 2010 * KONS International Literary Award – since 2011 * Grand Prix of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoo Ha
Yoo Ha (; or spelled Yu Ha; born February 9, 1963) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and a contemporary poet. He directed the critically acclaimed films ''Marriage Is a Crazy Thing'' (2002), ''Once Upon a Time in High School'' (2004), ''A Dirty Carnival'' (2006) and ''Gangnam Blues'' (2015). The latter is a gangster movie with allusions to Martin Scorsese films like ''Gangs of New York'', ''Mean Streets'' and ''Goodfellas''. at Koreanfilm.org Filmography * ''A Day of Poet Goobo'' (short; 1990) * ''We Must Go to Apgujeong-dong on Windy Days'' (1993) * '''' (2002) * '' |
Daum (web Portal)
Daum ( ko, 다음) is a South Korean web portal. It offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping, news and webtoon service. The word "daum" means "next" and also "diverse voices". Background The popularity of Daum stems from the range of services it offers, but also from the fact that it was the first Korean web portal of significant size. Its popularity started when it merged with the then most popular e-mail service, daum.net or hanmail.net. After the merging, Daum started the forum service Daum Cafe which brought its firm status in the market. Daum received the eighth highest trust rating in a 2020 Reuters Institute survey of selected South Korean media outlets. History The former Daum Communications Corporation (Korean: ㈜다음커뮤니케이션) was founded in 1994 by and , and the company launched the namesake portal in May 1997 making it the first South Korean web portal, four months earli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dong-a Ilbo
The ''Dong-A Ilbo'' (, literally ''East Asia Daily'') is a newspaper of record in Korea since 1920 with a daily circulation of more than 1.2 million and opinion leaders as its main readers. ''The Dong-A Ilbo'' is the parent company of Dong-A Media Group (DAMG), which is composed of 11 affiliates including Sports Dong-A, Dong-A Science, DUNet, and dongA.com, as well as Channel A, general service cable broadcasting company launched on 1 December 2011. It covers a variety of areas including news, drama, entertainment, sports, education, and movies. ''The Dong-A Ilbo'' has partnered with international news companies such as ''The New York Times'' of the United States of America, ''The Asahi Shimbun'' of Japan and ''The People's Daily'' of China. It has correspondents stationed in five major cities worldwide including Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo, Cairo and Paris. It also publishes global editions in 90 cities worldwide including New York, London, Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Kyung-ju
Kim Kyung Ju (born July 14, 1976) is a South Korean poet and performance artist. Life Kim Kyung Ju was born in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do, Korea and studied Philosophy at Sogang University He made his formal debut in 2003 in the Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest. While he started out as a "classic" poet, he has changed his focus to performance poetry, theater, musicals and independent films. His first book of poetry, ''I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In This World'', was published in 2006 and made waves in the literary world, selling over ten thousand copies. Work Kim Kyung Ju's poems frequently feature a narrator who wanders ceaselessly. Like nomads, the narrators of his poems refuse to settle down and enjoy exploring the limits of freedom. In the midst of this fluid journey, they sense the deep essence of life. Kim strives to preserve poetry in a world that has turned its back on it. He seeks to overcome the crisis that poetry faces today by interacting with other art forms. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwang In-suk
Hwang In-suk (Hangul: 황인숙) is a South Korean poet.”Hwang In-suk " LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Life Hwang In-suk was born December 21, 1958 in Seoul, South Korea. She debuted in 1984 with the poem I'll Be Born as a Cat. As the title of her debut poem suggests, Hwang is deeply interest in society's "alley cats", the lonely, isolated existences of the city, both human and feline. In fact, Hwang admits that she still sets out water and food for the stray cats in her neighborhood. She says that although she never sees the cats she feeds, she enjoys the feeling of returning and finding the dishes empty."Hwang In-suk" Biographical PDF, LTI Korea, p. 1 available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Friends of Hwang have named her the "poet of the 4 haves and the 4 have-nots". The four "have-nots" are home, money, husband, and children; the four "haves" are poetry, friends, a non-possessive spirit and a giving heart. Work The Korea Literatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chae Ho-ki
Chae Ho-ki (Hangul: 채호기) is a modern South Korean poet. Life Chae Ho-ki was born on October 13, 1957 in Daegu, South Korea and published his first poem in 1988 and since that time has been considered by South Korean critics as one of the major voices in Korean literature. Work If a desire for emotional union with the subject matter can be described as a general characteristic of Korean poetry, Chae departs radically from such a tendency to seek instead the complete obliteration of the boundary between the subject and the language in his poetry. His first volume of poetry, ''Ferocious Love'', rejects love as an idea and an emotional state and focuses on its physicality and mortality: Desire itself is objectified and given a physicality in "The Sad Gay", in which a gay man transforms himself into another being through the mechanical process of replacing body parts: Chae's most successful attempt to create a oneness with another is judged to be his ''Water Lilies''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Chanho
Song Chanho (, born 1959) is a South Korean poet. Life Song Chanho was born in Boeun County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea in 1959. He studied German language and literature at Kyungpook National University. His writing career began in 1987 when several of his poems, including "Geumho River" (), were published in the literary journal ''Literature of Our Age''. Song published his first poetry collection, ''The Soil Has the Memory of a Square'' (, 1989) two years later. Song won the thirteenth Dongsuh Literary Award and nineteenth Kim Su-yeong Literary Award, both in 2000. He has also received the Daesan Literary Award (2009) and the Yi Sang Literary Award (2010). Writing Song Chanho's style of writing is experimental lyric poetry. His first poetry collection, ''The Soil Has the Memory of a Square'' (, 1989) centred around the image of a square with no exit as a metaphor for life and death. His second poetry collection, ''The Chair That Remained Empty for Ten Years'' (, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ra Heeduk
Na Huideok (, born 1966) is a South Korean poet. Life Na Huideok was born in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province. She was raised in an orphanage in which her parents - Christians who sought to carry out the teachings of their religion through communal living - served on the administrative staff. Na has confessed that the experience of living with orphans had made her a precocious child, and that the recognition of the difference between herself and her playmates early on gave her a unique perspective on the world. Reportedly, Na Huideok stumbled into the life of a poet unintentionally. While struggling between the religious ideals fostered by her parents and the causes upheld by the student movement she encountered in college, Na found relief in poetry. Na graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University with both Master's and Doctorate degrees. She served as a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Chosun University from 2001 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon () is a South Korean poet. Life Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. She was raised by her grandmother and had tuberculous pleurisy as a child. She received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from Konkuk University and began her career as a poet in 1979 with the publication of the poem "Poet Smoking a Cigarette" ("Dambaereul piuneun siin") along with four other of her poems in the literary magazine ''Literature and Intellect'' (''Munhak-kwa Jiseong''). Kim is an important contemporary poet in South Korea, and she lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Kim was in the forefront of women published in ''Literature and Intellect''. Work Kim started to receive critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Her own belief is that her work was recognized at that time in no small part because the 1990s in South Korea were noted for a generally strong wave of women poets and women's poetry. Kim is the recipient of multi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ki-taek
Kim Ki-taek (; born 1957) is a modern South Korean poet. Biography Kim Ki-taek was born in 1957 in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. While many artists consider regular work, particularly the life of a white-collar worker, as a hindrance to creativity, Kim Ki-taek has successfully achieved a career as a poet while also working full-time. Kim was raised as an orphan, having been sent to an orphanage in Anyang from the Seoul Municipal Children's Hospital in 1961. Thus, Kim had to fend for himself from an early age and adapt to varied social situations. This history has given him a strong desire to have a stable position in society. Kim currently serves as a professor at Kyung Hee Cyber University. Work Kim's poetry is unsentimental and focuses on human physicality and the relationship between the body and the violence inflicted upon it. Fear and compulsion are integral parts of the human body, the poet believes. Material and psychological violence inflicted on the human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
