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김수열 시인, ‘개교 70주년 기념 헌시’ 기증

Kim Soo-yeol writes a poem marking JNU’s 70^th anniversary of opening 

Poet Kim Soo-yeol, who was born and raised in Jeju and graduated from Jeju National University (Department of Korean Language Education in 1984), donated a poem to the university in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of its opening.

The donation is aimed at publicizing JNU’s development status on the 70th anniversary of its foundation, wishing for the university’s bigger leap forward. Simultaneously, the poem celebrates the 40th anniversary of the advancement of the school’s status as a university, the poet explained..

Kim started his career by publishing his earlier works in Practical Literature in 1982. His literary collections include a poetry collection “Homo Masks,” a Jeju 4·3-themed poetry collection “Where Flowers Fell,” and a prose collection “A Place Farther than the Moon”. He won the Oh Jang-hwan Literature Award and Shin Seok-jung Literature Award.