Park Nam-su


Park Nam-su was a South Korean poet.

Life

Park Nam-su was born on April 3, 1918 in Pyeongyang, Pyeongannam-do, in Japanese-occupied Korea. Park graduated from Chuo University, Tokyo, in 1941. 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.
Although Park was born in what would become North Korea, he emigrated to the South in 1951 and later to United States in 1973.
Park died on September 17, 1994.

Work

The Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes Park Nam-su's contributions to Korean literature:

Works in Korean (partial)

Published Collections