Sung Chan-gyeong


Sung Chan-gyeong was a modern South Korean poet.

Life

Sung Chan-gyeong was born on March 1, 19430 in Yesan Chungcheongnam-do, Korea. He attended Seoul National University where he earned a B.A. in English. He worked as a member of the 1960s literary club Sahwajip and the poetry reading club, Kionggan. Sung worked as a Professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University.
Sung died on February 26, 2013.

Work

Sung debuted with the poem “Miyeol” in Arts and Literature magazine in 1956, going on to publish "Amudo nareul”, "Monologue of Da Vinci" and "Midwife Grandmother". Sung's first collection of poetry was titled A Fugue for Burning and since that publication Sung has also published Ode to Insects, Song for Time, The Eyes of the Soul and the Eyes of the Body, The Enchanted Green and A Tribute to the Pine Tree.
The Korea Literature Translation Institute sums up Sung's poetry:
Perhaps Sung's best-known work in Korean is a series of poems entitled The Screw Bolt, in which he tried to find nature in the artifacts of civilization.

Works in Korean (Partial)

Poetry Collections