Kwak Hyo-hwan | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Jeonju, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Korean |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Alma mater | Konkuk University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Subject | Korea |
Kwak Hyo Hwan (Korean: 곽효환, born 1967) is a South Korean poet. Since his literary debut in 1996, he wrote a number of poems based on his interest in regions north of the Korean Peninsula, including Dandong, China, Tibet, Xinjiang Uyghurs Autonomous Region of China, Siberia, and Baykal. In the early 2000s, he served as the director-general of the Daesan Foundation and planned and organized a variety of events for the globalization of Korean literature.