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Photo from MBC Show
‘On The Border-Korean Peninsula’
(선을 넘는 녀석들)

The show is about
learning history in tourism;
This particular episode
they introduce the trace of
where  poet Yun Dongju
used to  live in Japan.

 

Poet Yun Dongju
(12, 30, 1917 – 2, 16, 1945)

Yun Dongju was a poet.
He was Known for his writing of poetry
as well as a resistant against
the Japan’s dictatorship of Korea;
He was persecuted and killed
because of this very reason.

In August 1945 , Korea regained
the ownership of the nation.
Unfortunately, He died in prison
in February 16, 1945 due to positive reaction
to the biological, chemical weapon test
which was directed by some evil leaders
under the policy of japan’s colonization in Asia
during this horrible Era.

The lost of poet Yun Dongju
along with so many victims of the war
has been an ache to the nation till this day.

Recently, a movie about Yun Dongju
was released with an another
huge impact in South Korea.

The poem
‘Counting the stars at night’ was written
in Japan’s jail cell; looking up the sky missing
everything that he experienced in 28 years.

In January 1948,
31 of his poems were published by his friends.
The title is ‘Sky, Wind, Star’

Writen by  Yi, Sie Woo*
3/18/16 Posted on LLCN

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