Author · North Korea
Cho Ki-chon
Died in 1951
Cho Ki-chon was born in 1913 in Ael'tugeu, near Vladivostok, into a Korean family of the Russian Far East. Trained at the Korean teacher-training school in Voroshilov-Ussuriysk and then at the pedagogical institute in Omsk, he was sent to North Korea by the Soviet authorities in 1945. A lyric and epic poet, he sang of the land reform, wrote a love poem that became a song in both Koreas, and followed the army as a correspondent. He died in Pyongyang on 31 July 1951.
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- Epic백두산Cho Ki-chon · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature