Yun Dong-ju (윤동주) KOREAN POETRY: Sky, Wind, Star and Poem - Foreword (하늘과 바람과 별과 시 - 서시) [KOR/ENG]

Yun Dong-ju (윤동주) KOREAN POETRY: Sky, Wind, Star and Poem - Foreword (하늘과 바람과 별과 시 - 서시) [KOR/ENG]

Yun Dong-ju (윤동주; December 30, 1917 – February 16, 1945) was born in Longjing, Jilin, China He was a Korean poet who was known for his lyric poetry, especially his resistance poetry He had been writing poetry from time to time, and chose 19 poems to publish in a collection he intended to call "Sky, Wind, Star, and Poem" (하늘과 바람과 별과 시), but he was unable to get it published In 1942, he went to Japan and entered the English literature department of Rikkyo University in Tokyo, before moving to Doshisha University in Kyoto six months later On July 14, 1943, he was arrested as a supporter of Korean independence by the Japanese police and detained at the Kamogawa Police Station in Kyoto The following year, the Kyoto regional court sentenced him to two years of prison on the charge of having participated in the Korean independence movement He was imprisoned in Fukuoka, where he died in February 1945 His poetry was finally published in 1948, when three collections of handwritten manuscripts were published posthumously as "The Heavens and the Wind and the Stars and Poetry" With the appearance of this volume Yun came into the spotlight as a Resistance poet of the late occupation period In a 1986 survey, he was selected as 'the most popular poet amongst the youth and his popularity continues to this day - Wikipedia: English translation by Translated by Kyungnyun K Richards & Steffen F Richards