Chyung Jinkyu Explained

Chyung JinKyu
Birth Date:19 October 1939
Birth Place:Anseong, Korea, Empire of Japan
Death Place:Seoul, South Korea
Language:Korean
Nationality:South Korean
Korean name
Hangul:정진규
Rr:Jeong Jin-gyu
Mr:Chŏng Chin-gyu

Chyung JinKyu[1] (; October 19, 1939 – September 28, 2017) was a South Korean writer.[2]

Life

Chyung JinKyu was born on October 19, 1939, in Anseong, Keiki-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan.[3] Chyung attended Anseong Agricultural School, and then graduated from Korea University in 1964 with a degree in Korean Literature.

Chyung died on September 28, 2017, at Asan Medical Center in Seoul.[4] [5]

Work

While many poets focused on larger political issues Chyung displayed linguistic sensibility as he sang of life's ambiguities and the contradictions of the times from a personal viewpoint.[6] His early poetry is characterized by its beautiful, exquisite language, and its deep immersion in self-consciousness. From the mid-1960s, the poet grappled in his work with the conflict between life and poetry, which in turn, caused the poet serious inner turmoil. He attempted to overcome this essential conflict in his critical essays, "Siui aemaehame daehayeo" and "Siui jeongjikhame daehayeo." Despite his efforts, however, he could not easily find the positive balance between poetic indulgence and quotidian existence.[7]

After the publication of his collection Deulpanui biin jibiroda, he began to incorporate elements of prose into his poetry, which enabled him to shift from a focus on individual to collective consciousness. In order to sustain this stylistic transformation, the poet engaged in a process that reaffirmed the fundamental poetical quality of his work. This process contributed to a significant development in Jung's aesthetic.[8] One critic noted that Chyung JinKyu transfers the rhythm of nature with the eyes that discover the depth of human lives in nature.[9]

Works in translation

Works in Korean (partial)

Poetry

Biography

Awards

Notes and References

  1. This was the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea Web site: Author Database . LTI Korea . 7 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do . 21 September 2013 .
  2. "정진규" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Web site: Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute . 2013-09-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do . 2013-09-21 .
  3. Web site: 정진규 시인 . people.search.naver.com . . 12 November 2013.
  4. News: 정진규 前 시인협회장 별세. Chyung Jinkyu, former president of Poets Association, passes away. Munhwa Ilbo. 2017-09-29. 2017-12-30.
  5. News: 문학계 큰 별 지다···정진규 시인 별세, 향년 79. Great star of the literary world sets ... poet Chyung Jingyu passes away at 79. Newsis. 2017-09-29. 2017-12-30.
  6. Book: Twentieth-Century Korean Literature . Yi Nam-ho . U Ch'anje . Yi Kwangho . Kim Mihyeon . EastBridge Signature Books Series . 2005 . 50. 978-1891936456.
  7. Source-attribution|"Jung Jinkyu" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Web site: Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute . 2013-09-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do . 2013-09-21 .
  8. Source-attribution|"Jung Jinkyu" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Web site: Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute . 2013-09-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do . 2013-09-21 .
    • Yoo . Sungho . Rediscovering the Self Through Lyricism . 10 Winter 2010 . 14 . LIST . 2010 . 2013-11-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112105548/http://www.list.or.kr/articles/article_view.htm?Div1=8&Idx=557 . 2013-11-12 . dead .

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