Kim Ok (poet)

김억 (Kim Ok)
Born1896
Jeongju, North Pyeongan Province,  Korean Empire
OccupationPoet
LanguageKorean
Citizenship Korean Empire
GenrePoem
Notable works"The Song of Jellyfish" (해파리의 노래)
"Dance in Agony" (오뇌의 무도)
Korean name
Hangul
김억
Hanja
金億
Revised RomanizationGim Eok
McCune–ReischauerKim Ŏk

Kim Ok (Korean: 김억; 1896–unknown) was a Korean poet. He is one of the representative poets who led the early modernism movement in the Korean poetry scene, translating Western poetry and poetics and writing his own poetry.[1] He published the first collection of translated poetry Onoeui mudo (오뇌의 무도 Dance in Agony; 1921) and the first modern poetry collection Haepariui norae (해파리의 노래 The Song of Jellyfish; 1923).[2] He taught Kim Sowol as his student, and the two of them composed folk-poetry.[1]

  1. ^ a b Kwon, Youngmin (2004). 김억. Encyclopedia of Modern Korean Literature (한국현대문학대사전) (in Korean). Seoul National University Press. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  2. ^ 김억 [Kim Ŏk]. Doosan Encyclopedia (in Korean). Retrieved 2019-10-07. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |script-work= ignored (help)