Shin Seok-jung was a Korean poet. He was born in 1907 in Buan, North Jeolla Province.신석정은 누구 http://www.munhwa.com/news/view.html?no=2017031001033112000001 After graduating from Buan public school, he went to Seoul and studied Buddhist texts for a year in Gangwon Province, at the predecessor of Dongguk University.
In 1931, he began his career as a member of the 'Simunhak'(, The meaning of 'poetic literature', a monthly magazine specializing in poetry). He established a unique position by publishing an idyllic poetry. He served as a schoolteacher at Buan Middle School and Jeonju High School.
In July 1976, Shin Seok-Jeong's tombstone was constructed in Jeonju Deokjin Park.전주 덕진공원 시(詩)의 바다로 http://www.newstown.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=301646
Works list Candlelight (1939) Flowering Shrubs (1946) A Sad Pastoral (1947) Glacier (1956) Do You Know That Faraway Land? (2020)
See also Seokjeong Literary Museum
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