Yun Dong-ju or Yoon Dong-joo was a Korean poet. Known for his lyric poetry as well as resistance poetry, he was born in Longjing, Jilin, China. Yoon was born in Gando during the Japanese occupation. The main building is Papyeong. He studied at the Myeongdong School, and graduated from Pyongyang Soongsil Middle School and Seoul Yeonhee College. During his second year at Yeonhee College, he published a poem in the boy magazine, and officially appeared in the paragraph. After crossing over to Japan, he entered Kyoto Doshisha University in 1942 but was arrested by the Japanese police for alleged anti-Japanese movements in 1943. While imprisoned in a Fukuoka, he died at the age of 27, leaving over 100 poems. His cause of death in Fukuoka prison is uncertain, but theories have been raised based on accounts of saltwater injections and medical experiments performed at that prison. His book, The Sky, the Wind, the Stars, and the Poem, was published posthumously. He was recognized as one of the conscientious intellectuals in the latter half of the Japanese colonial period, and his poems were based on criticism and self-reflection of the Japanese colonial government and the Joseon Governor-General. His friend and cousin, Song Mong-Gyu, was also arrested while trying to join the independence movement and was classified as a subject of Japanese experimentation in Japan. While in Japan, he adopted the Japanese name, Hiranuma. In addition to his Korean name, the nicknames Dongju and Yunju were also used.
Life
Yun Dong-Ju was the eldest son among the four children of his father Yun Yeong-Seok and his mother Kim Yong. As a child, he was called "Haehwan". He entered Eunjin Middle School in Longjing in 1932 and returned to Korea to attend Soongsil Middle School in Pyeongyang in 1936. When the school was closed down in the same year he moved back to Longjing and attended the Gwangmyeong Institute. On December 27, 1941, aged 23, he graduated from Yonhi College, which later became Yonsei University. He had been writing poetry from time to time and chose 19 poems to publish in a collection he intended to call "Sky, Wind, Star, and Poem", but he was unable to get it published. After crossing over to Japan, entering Kyoto Doshisha University in 1942, arrested by the Japanese police for alleged anti-Japanese movements in 1943, imprisoned in a Fukuoka prison, leaving over 100 poems and died in prison at the age of 27. The view that the signing of the Japanese saltwater Vivo and after his death the Japanese by Maruta is uncertain, but raising theories, biological experiments. Afterward, his poetry, The Sky, the Wind, the Stars, and the Poem, was published. His poetry was finally published in 1948 when three collections of handwritten manuscripts were published posthumously as "The Heavens and the Wind and the Stars and Poetry". With the appearance of this volume Yun came into the spotlight as a Resistance poet of the late occupation period. In November 1968, Yonsei University and others established an endowment for the Yun Tong-Ju Poetry Prize. In 2007, he was listed by the Korean Poets' Association among the ten most important modern Korean poets.
In January 1948, 31 of his poems were published by Jeongeumsa, together with an introduction by the fellow poet Chong Ji-yong; this work was also titled Sky, Wind, Star, and Poem. His poetry had a huge impact. In 1976, Yun's relatives collected his other poems and added them to a third edition of the book. The poems that are in this edition are considered to be most of Yun's works. In a 1986 survey, he was selected as 'the most popular poet amongst the youth' and his popularity continues to this day. The following are two English translations of the Foreword to his collection, dated November 20, 1941:
In Lee Jung-myung's novel The Investigation is, inter alia, "an imaginative paean to" Yun. In 2011, Yun Dong-Ju Shoots the Moon, a musical based on his life, was performed by the Seoul Performing Arts Company. The movie was released in February 2016. It depicts the lives of Yun Dong-Ju and Song Mong-kyu in the setting of the Japanese colonial era. Yun is portrayed by actor Kang Ha-Neul. And You can also watch this movie with English subtitles. On December 31 episode of Infinite Challenge featured the climax of the history and hip-hop, Kwanghee and Gaeko featuring Oh Hyuk from Hyukoh performed song title "Your Night" inspired from Yun Dong-ju life and poet.
