Park Ynhui

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.
Park Ynhui
Born (1930-02-26) February 26, 1930
Pen name Park Yeemun
Language Korean
Nationality South Korean
Ethnicity Korean
Citizenship South Korean
Park Ynhui
Hangul 박인희
Hanja 朴仁熙
Revised Romanization Bak Inhui
McCune–Reischauer Pak Inhŭi
Pen name
Hangul 박이문
Hanja 朴異汶
Revised Romanization Bak Imun
McCune–Reischauer Pak Imun

Park Ynhui (born February 26, 1930) is a South Korean poet and writer who publishes under the name Park Yeemun in Korean.[1]

Life

Park was born in 1930 and graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in French literature. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris, from which he received a PhD in Philosophy. Park spent 30 years as a professor in, Japan, Germany, France, and the United States. He taught in Boston until his retirement in 1993[2] at which point he returned to South Korea where he taught at Pohang University and Yonsei University.[3]

Work

Park has published many books, mainly books and papers on philosophical topics in both French and English. He published five volumes of Korean poetry: The Snow on the Charles River (1979), Dream of a Butterfly (1981), The Shadows of the Invisible (1987) and Resonances of the Void (1989) and in 1999 has published his own poetry in English, Broken Words.[1] Then, in 2006, he published Morning Stroll, which earned him the Incheon Prize. Park's 'non' literary works include Roadmap to a Green Korea and The Journey Isn't Over Yet.[3]

Translator Brother Anthony (An Sonjae) summarizes Park and his work:

Park's poem's are not difficult, they are usually simple and suggestive, inviting the reader to share an experience of some moment, some scene, in which the underlying void seems to have yielded to value and meaning.
...
Park is a poet inhabited by a compassion born of the suffering he witnessed and experienced in childhood and youth. His poems re-enact a search for consolation and peace, faced with the meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence.[3]

Works in Translation

Works in Korean (Partial)

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Ynhui Park poems". Sogang University. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Ynhui Park". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Park, Ynhui (2014). "About the Author". Shadows of the Void. Seoul: Seoul Selection. pp. inner sleeve. ISBN 978-162412-0275.
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