Kim Kirim was a Korean poet and literary critic who represented Korean modernist literature in the 1930s.
13 Facts About Kim Kirim
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Kim Kirim was one of the first intellectualists who introduced modernism to the Korean literary circle and emphasized rationality by means of the compressibility of poetry.
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Kim Kirim was born in Haksung, North Hamgyeong Province in 1908.
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Kim Kirim went to Immyeong Primary School in 1914, and his childhood name was known as In-son Kim Kirim, his art name being Pyeonseokchon.
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In 1921, Kim Kirim quit Posung Middle School in Seoul and transferred to Rikkyo Middle School in Tokyo to continue his studies.
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In 1936, Kim Kirim entered the Department of English at Tohoku University located in Sendai.
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Meanwhile, Kim Kirim had no choice but quit his job due to the forced closure of the Chosun Ilbo in 1940 by the Japanese colonial government.
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Kim Kirim succeeded in moving to South Korea with three of his children first; his wife and the youngest son made it later, in the spring of 1948.
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Kim Kirim was reportedly abducted by the state political security department of North Korea after the Korean War broke out, and the time and whereabouts of his death have not been known until now.
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Kim Kirim believed that poets were identified as the intelligentsia, a by-product of capitalist society, and were tasked with conveying the values of the times to the public.
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The latter part of Kim Kirim's career started around Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
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In contrast to the gloomy and private atmosphere of The Sea and the Butterfly, Kim Kirim showed a strong will to build a new nation in The New Song to beat defeatism of the time.
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Kim Kirim descents, thinking it is a blue radish farm,.