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Kim Su-yeong

Died in 1968

Kim Su-yeong was born on 27 November 1921 in Seoul. After Sunrin Commercial High School, he went to study in Tōkyō and returned in 1943 to escape the conscription of students; in 1944 he followed his family to Jilin, in Manchuria. Conscripted by the Northern army during the Korean War, he was held prisoner in the camp on Geoje Island, which he left in 1952. Back in Seoul, he worked for newspapers, then withdrew in 1955 to raise poultry and devote himself to poetry, translation and criticism. He died on 16 June 1968, knocked down by a bus.

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