Скачать или смотреть [KLN] Interview with Ko Un | 시인 고은 인터뷰 #2 (ENG SUB)

Ko Un (born 1933) is a South Korean poet known for his role in the campaign for Korean democracy.

Ko Un was born Ko Untae in 1933 to a peasant family living in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. When he was 12, he discovered the poems of Han Ha-un, a nomadic Korean poet with leprosy, and was so impressed that he began writing himself.
A teenager when the Korean War broke out in 1950, Ko was forced to work as a grave digger. He became so traumatized that he poured acid into his ear to shut out the war’s noise, leaving him deaf in one ear. In 1952 Ko decided to become a Buddhist monk. After a decade of this life, during which he published his first collection of poems in 1960, Piangamseong (피안감성 Otherworld Sensibility), and his first novel in 1961, Pianaeng (피안앵 Cherry Tree in Another World), he returned to lay life. Dependent on alcohol and not at peace, he attempted to poison himself in 1970.
By chance, however, Ko read about Jeon Tae-il, a young textile worker who set himself alight during a demonstration in support of workers' rights. Inspired, Ko turned to social activism. After the South Korean government adopted the Yusin Constitution in 1972, he became very active in the democracy movement and was imprisoned three times. In May 1980, during the coup d'état led by Chun Doo-hwan, Ko was accused of treason and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, although he was released in August 1982 as part of a general pardon.
Ko devoted his energies to a prolific writing career but remained as active an organizer as ever. In 2000 he visited North Korea as one of the special delegates for the Inter-Korean summit which inspired his volume of poems Namgwa buk (남과 북 South and North). In the years since then he has made many other visits to North Korea. From 2008 to 2018, he served as an endowed chair at Dankook University.

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