Pak Tu-jin [SEP] native language
Pak Tu-jin
Pak Tu-jin (also transliterated as Park Dujin) (1916 – September 16, 1998) was a Korean poet. A voluminous writer of nature poetry, he is chiefly notable for the way he made of his subjects symbols of the newly emerging national situation of Korea in the second half of the 20th century.
Life.
Pak was born in Anseong, 40 miles from Seoul in modern-day South Korea, an area to which he often refers nostalgically in his poetry. His
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Heritage.
After Pak Tu-jin's death in 1998, a boulder with his poem "Nostalgia" inscribed on it was erected in his memory at the entrance of Anseong Municipal Library. The Pak Tu-jin Hall on the library's third floor was opened in 2008. This is dedicated to the poet's literary work and life and also has on display examples of his calligraphy and ceramics on which he had inscribed his poems. The Pak Tu-jin Memorial Society based in Anseong hosts a national essay