Language Korean Name Chyung Jinkyu Citizenship South Korean | Ethnicity Korean Nationality South Korean Role Writer | |
Born October 19, 1939 (age 84) ( 1939-10-19 ) | ||
Chyung JinKyu (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea, or Hangul: 정진규) is a South Korean writer.
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Life
Chyung JinKyu (This is the preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) was born on October 19, 1939 in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Chyung attended Anseong Agricultural School, and then graduated from Korea University in 1964 with a degree in Korean Literature.
Work
While many poets focused on larger political issues Chyung JinKyu displayed linguistic sensibility as he sang of life’s ambiguities and the contradictions of the times from a personal viewpoint. His early poetry is characterized by its beautiful, exquisite language, and its deep immersion in self-consciousness. From the mid-1960s, the poet grappled in his work with the conflict between life and poetry, which in turn, caused the poet serious inner turmoil. He attempted to overcome this essential conflict in his critical essays, "Siui aemaehame daehayeo" and "Siui jeongjikhame daehayeo." Despite his efforts, however, he could not easily find the positive balance between poetic indulgence and quotidian existence.
After the publication of his collection Deulpanui biin jibiroda, he began to incorporate elements of prose into his poetry, which enabled him to shift from a focus on individual to collective consciousness. In order to sustain this stylistic transformation, the poet engaged in a process that reaffirmed the fundamental poetical quality of his work. This process contributed to a significant development in Jung's aesthetic. One critic noted that Chyung JinKyu transfers the rhythm of nature with the eyes that discover the depth of human lives in nature.
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Works in Korean (Partial)
Poetry
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