Late poets Yoon Dong-ju, Kim Nam-jo receive Korea’s highest cultural honor
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Quick summary- 1Yoon Dong-ju, one of Korea’s most beloved poets, whose introspective Korean-language poetry captured the pain of life under Japanese colonial rule, and Kim Nam…
Yoon Dong-ju, one of Korea’s most beloved poets, whose introspective Korean-language poetry captured the pain of life under Japanese colonial rule, and Kim Nam-jo, one of the most prominent female poets of postwar Korea, were posthumously awarded the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the country’s highest cultural honor, on Monday. Born in 1917 in Longjing, in what is now China’s Jilin province, Yoon graduated from Yonhi College, now Yonsei University, in 1941 and went to study in Japan, first a
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