Shin Tong-yop

Shin Tong-yop was born in August 1930 in Buyeo, in South Chungcheong. Admitted to the Jeonju teachers' school, he was expelled from it in 1948 after student demonstrations, then studied history at Dankook University. During the Korean War he contracted a liver fluke, which later developed into cancer. He taught at an agricultural high school, then from 1961 at the Myongsong girls' high school. He died in April 1969.

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• Poetry금강Shin Tong-yop · 1967not translated into EnglishLiterature