Anti-dictatorship and democratization activities… He was imprisoned for the Mincheong Hakryun incident in the 1970s.
Immersion in life thought since the 80s… Controversy over the ‘Good Edition of Death’ column
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(Seoul/Wonju=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Eun-jung, Lee Jae-hyun, and Kim Gye-yeon = Poet Kim Ji-ha (real name Kim Young-il), who left works such as ‘With Burning Thirst’ and ‘The Mischief’, passed away on the 8th. He died at the age of 81.
The poet passed away at his home in Wonju, Gangwon-do, around 4 p.m. on the same day following a year of fighting the disease, an official from the Toji Cultural Foundation said.
The official said in a phone call with Yonhap News, “The second son, Kim Se-hee, chairman of the Toji Cultural Foundation, and his wife, who were living with the poet, died together.”
Born in Mokpo, Jeollanam-do in 1941, the deceased graduated from the Department of Aesthetics at Seoul National University in 1966 and officially debuted in 1969 by publishing five poems in the magazine ‘Poet’, ‘Hwang Tot-gil’ and ‘Rain’.
Afterwards, he drew attention as a symbol of democratization resisting the Yushin dictatorship and as a representative writer of the national literature camp.
In 1970, he was sentenced to death on charges of manipulating the Mincheong Hakryun incident in 1974, following being imprisoned for writing a poem that satirizes state power.
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The deceased, who published a poem of resistance in the 1970s, was immersed in establishing the life ideology of Hucheon Gaebyeok following the 1980s.
In 1991, Myongji University student Kang Kyung-dae was killed by the police and self-immolation in protest followed. In the progressive camp, he was criticized as a ‘renegade’. He was also expelled from the Association of Writers of Freedom (now the Writers’ Association), which was created as a result of his lifesaving campaign.
Poet Kim explained regarding the column in the summer issue of ‘Practical Literature’ 10 years later and expressed his apology, but he publicly supported Park Geun-hye, the then-Saenuri Party presidential candidate in 2012, and blatantly criticized the progressive literature critic Baek Nak-cheong, professor emeritus of Seoul National University. and showed a confused move.
His representative works include poetry collections such as ‘Hwangto’, ‘Burning Thirst’, ‘Oh Jeok’, and ‘Aerin’, as well as prose collections ‘Life’ and ‘What is Yulryeo’. In 2018, he finally made a desperate declaration of his poetry collection ‘White Shade’ and prose collection ‘Space Biology’.
He has received the Lotus Special Award from the Asia-African Writers Association, the Great Poet Award from the International Poet Association, the Bruno Kraiski Award, the Manhae Literary Award, and the Jung Ji-yong Literary Award.
In 1973, he married Kim Young-joo, the daughter of novelist Park Kyung-ri, and Kim, who was the chairman of the Toji Cultural Foundation, passed away in 2019.
Survivors include their sons, writer Won-bo Kim and Chairman Kim Se-hee of the Toji Cultural Foundation.
Poet Jiha Kim’s mortuary was prepared at the funeral hall of Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, and his death is on the 11th. Her burial place is Seonyeong, Heungeop-myeon, Wonju, where her wife is buried.
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