Park Mok-Wol

There was So-wol in the North , and Park Mok-wol in the South deserves it.

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Jeong Ji-yong , 《Sentence》(1940)

across the river
wheat field road

like the moon in the clouds
a traveler

the road is single
300 ri south

In every town that gets drunk
burning sunset

like the moon in the clouds
a traveler

- 「 Traveller 」

mountain is
oral acid
purple stone mountain

acidification
a couple of bunches
I get bunches

melting spring snow
like jade
in the water

the deer
doe
wash your feet

-「Acidification 1」

Like raising an orchid
from what was sadly abandoned
live quietly,
branch out,
And that sad meaning
flower buds by themselves
iced coffee
Smell the scent from far away
want to keep

-"I am"

(syncopation)

gathered at the bottom
nine puppies
things like puppies
Walk the cold road with humiliation and hunger
i came
father came
No, nineteen and a half shoes have arrived.
no on the ground
The clumsy thing of being a father
exist.
smiling
look at my face

-"home"

Cheongunsa Temple on Mt.
old tile-roofed house

The mountain is Jahasan (紫霞山)
When the spring snow melts

elm tree
Twelve bends with inner leaves blooming

Blue deer
in clear eyes

turning
cloud.

-「Blue deer」

calf calf brindle calf
Even the mother cow looks like a cow mother

calf calf brindle calf
You have two ears like a mummy

-"calf"

Mulakkano, on the other side of the river
What are you rocking, blown by the wind

From the prow leaving for this world or the other world
My voice is blown away by the wind

What Rock Cano What Rock Cano
It rots and the Dong-a rope rots away.

-「 Goodbye song 」

• He also had a relationship with novelist Hwang Soon -won, poet and novelist Kim Dong -ri , and children 's literary artist Kang So -cheon .

• Lee Seung-hoon , poet Na Tae-joo , and actress Yoon Yeo-jeong are also his students.

• Among the generally known poems, poems with strong indigenous sentiments are loved a lot.[14] It is known that he has a poetic world based on a Buddhist worldview, but Protestant sentiment flows quite deeply in Park Mok-wol's poetry, but surprisingly, this part is not well known to the public. It is said that his mother became a devout believer, and thanks to that, his husband (the poet's father) also evangelized, and of course his children grew up as believers. It is said that it was even enough to establish a church, so it is a family belonging to a prestigious Protestant family. Thanks to this, the Protestant magazine "Shingye"[15] Sometimes congratulatory poems were also included. After the poet's death, this fact became known to the general public as his wife published a posthumous collection of poems called "Big and Beautiful Hands" by separately collecting poems with strong Christian colors among his posthumous memories. This is what Professor Park Dong-gyu introduced in an interview with the Christian magazine "Light and Salt".

• In 1952, at the end of the Korean War , there were two sisters who followed Park Mok-wol in a church in Daegu, where they were refugees. However, when the eldest daughter approached him with deep feelings, Mok-wol rejected her and went up to Seoul, where she eventually gave up and got married. However, the younger sister, who was attending a prestigious women's university in Seoul, could not give up Park Mok-wol, so when she met him again, she confessed her feelings to him, and Park Mok-wol fell in love with the female college student, threw away her position as a professor in the Department of Korean Literature at Hanyang University, her family, and her reputation, and disappeared with her lover. Some time later, Park Mok-wol's wife, Yu Ik-sun, found out that he was living with his lover in Jeju Island and went looking for her husband. When they finally met, the wife said, "Isn't it hard?" and gave him an envelope of money and winter clothes for the two of them to get through the cold winter, and disappeared to Seoul. At the time, the woman ended their cohabitation after her family persuaded her, and Mok-wol returned home. It is said that his poem, "Song of Parting," contains a story of love and parting between two people.

• When Park Mok-wol was living in Jeju, he often interacted with writers who lived in Jeju-do. At the Donghwa Inn where Park Mok-wol stayed, they often had poetry recitations. When the lover who was staying with Park Mok-wol left, the writers of the province and Park Mok-wol saw them off together. The poet Yang Jung-hae, who saw the scene at the time, left a poem about the scene at the time . Gagok 『 Leaving Ship 』 was released. At the time of the announcement, it was said that he wrote the lyrics while watching the writers leaving Jeju without talking about the situation at the time out of consideration for the deceased.

• One night, the image of the moon hanging from a tree was so beautiful that he came up with the pseudonym Mokwol.

• cultural broadcasting The lyrics of Saga are also one of his works.[16]

• In 1965, he recommended Yu An-jin to debut as a poet.

• He also wrote the lyrics for Comrades in 1973 .

• 46 years after his death on March 12, 2024, the Committee for Publication of Park Mok-wol's Works announced that a large number of poet Park's unpublished handwritten poems were discovered in 62 notebooks kept by his eldest son Park Mok-wol, professor emeritus at Seoul National University (Korean Literature), at his home, and 18 notebooks kept at the Dongni Mok-wol Literature Museum in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do. A total of 460 poems were written from the late 1930s to the late 1970s , and excluding previously published poems, a total of 290 unpublished poems were written . Professor Park said he did not know whether revealing unpublished work at the press conference was against his father's wishes.[17] He said that from the child's perspective, he could not carelessly evaluate his father's work and wondered whether it was right to make it public. He also answered that he hesitated because he thought there might have been a reason why his father did not disclose it while he was alive. Afterwards, in August 2023, the Committee for Publication of Legacy Works was organized, and among them, the Committee for Publication of Legacy Works selected and released 166 works that had high literary perfection, diverse themes, and clearly demonstrated the process of creative change. It plans to study the newly discovered poems and make handwritten notes public in the near future. The works released this time will be released in digitized form and will also be published as e-books . #1 #2 #3 #4

• A cartoonist who parodied his name is the poet Bang Mo-geol . Although he was active until the 2010s, he has not had any new works since he serialized a work called Legendary Fairy Tale on Kakao Page, and his whereabouts since then are unknown.