Yun Dong-ju
| 윤동주 | |
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| Born | December 30, 1917 Myeongdongchon(명동촌), Longjing, Jilin, China |
| Died | February 16, 1945 (aged 27) Fukuoka Prison, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Korean |
| Ethnicity | Korean |
| Education | Yonsei University |
| Alma mater |
Rikkyo University English Literature Doshisha University Literature |
| Genre | Poem |
| Notable works | 《하늘과 바람과 별과 시》(Sky, Wind, Star and Poem) |
| Website | |
| http://yoondongju.yonsei.ac.kr/ | |
| Yun Dong-ju | |
| Hangul | 윤동주 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Yun Dong-ju |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yun Tongju |
| Pen name | |
| Hangul | 해환 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Haehwan |
| McCune–Reischauer | Haehwan |
Yun Dong-ju (윤동주, Korean pronunciation: [jundoŋdʑu]; December 30, 1917 – February 16, 1945) was a Korean poet. Known for his lyric poetry as well as resistance poetry, he was born in Longjing, Jilin, China.
Yun Dong-ju was the eldest son among the four children of his father Yun Yeong-seok and his mother Kim Yong. As a child he was called "Haehwan" (해환, 海煥 [hɛːhwan]). He entered Eunjin Middle School in Longjing in 1932, and returned to Korea to attend Soongsil Middle School in Pyeongyang in 1936. When the school was closed down in the same year he moved back to Longjing and attended the Gwangmyeong Institute. On December 27, 1941 at the age of 23 years, 11 months, 27 days, he graduated from Yeonhui Technical School, which later became Yonsei University.
He had been writing poetry from time to time, and chose 19 poems to publish in a collection he intended to call "Sky, Wind, Star, and Poem" (하늘과 바람과 별과 시), but he was unable to get it published.
In 1942, he went to Japan and entered the English literature department of Rikkyo University in Tokyo, before moving to Doshisha University in Kyoto six months later. On July 14, 1943, he was arrested as a thought criminal by the Japanese police and detained at the Kamogawa Police Station in Kyoto. The following year, the Kyoto regional court sentenced him to two years of prison on the charge of having participated in the Korean independence movement. He was imprisoned in Fukuoka, where he died in February 1945.
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