Park Yeonghan

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.
Park Yeonghan
Born September 14, 1947
Died August 23, 2006(2006-08-23) (aged 58)
Language Korean
Nationality South Korean
Ethnicity Korean
Citizenship South Korean
Korean name
Hangul 박영한

Park Yeonghan (Hangul: 박영한) was a South Korean writer.[1]

Life

Park Yeonghan was born September 14, 1947 in Busan, Korea.[2] Park graduated with a degree in Korean Literature from Yonsei University in Seoul.[3]

Park applied to the Law School of Korea University, but was refused and then spent three years traveling the Korean countryside working a laborer and living with prostitutes, petty thieves, vagabonds, and other social misfits. Park was admitted to Yonsei University, but two days after entering, volunteered to serve in the Vietnam War. When he returned to Korea, Park wrote The Distant Ssongba River (Meonameon ssongbagang, 1977) based on his experience in the war. He was awarded the second Today's Writer Prize, the novel sold over 100,000 copies and made Park an instant celebrity.[4]

Park died on August 23, 2006.[2]

Work

The Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes Parks' contributions to Korean Literature:

Park’s literary world is largely inspired by his experiences and can be divided into different thematic or stylistic groups according to the particular experience reflected.? The novels Love in Umukbaemi (Umukbaemiui sarang) and Wang Lung’s Family (Wangnung ilga, 1988), products of the author’s life in Ssukbaemi Village in the outskirts of Seoul, realistically portray everyday lives of common people at the periphery of Korea’s modernization with hearty, descriptive and often humorous language, which marks a departure from the concise writing style utilized in The Distant Sssongba River. Although Park’s thematic concerns are as varied as the experiences he has had in his life, they seem to reflect a certain concern for the corruption of humanity by external forces, whether it be the ideological warfare described in The Distant Ssongba River or rural industrialization in Love in Umukbaemi.[5]

Park is known for his 'honest' writing style, eschewing experimentation, and less interested in plot than experience.[3]

Works in Korean (Partial)

Short Stories

Novels

Awards

References

  1. ”Park Yeonghan" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
  2. 1 2 "Naver Search". naver.com. Naver. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 Lee, Kyung-ho (1996). "Park Young-Han". Who's Who in Korean Literature. Seoul: Hollym. pp. 425–427. ISBN 1-56591-066-4.
  4. S"Park Yeonghan" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
  5. Source-attribution|"Park Yeonghan" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
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