Kim So-wol

Kim Jeong-sik, who signed as Kim So-wol, was born in 1902 in North Pyongan. His father having been assaulted by Japanese workers from a railway construction site, according to the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, he was raised by his grandfather. At Osan school, his teacher was the poet Kim Eok, who guided him throughout his life; he finished his studies at Paejae high school, left in 1923 to study commerce in Tōkyō and returned the same year. He then ran a local branch of the Dong-a Ilbo. He died on 24 December 1934 in Gwaksan, and his death is regarded as a suicide.

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• PoetryAzaleas진달래꽃Kim So-wol · 1925Literature