Kim Kwang-kyu
South Korean writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kim Kwang-kyu is a South Korean poet and translator. Life Kim was born in Seoul and studied German language and literature at Seoul National University. Early in his university career, he participated in the demonstrations of the April Revolution that was repressed by a massacre on April 19, 1960, leading to the fall of President Syngman Rhee. He later studied for two years in Munich 1972-4. He discovered a talent for writing during his middle and high school years when his works were published in school magazines and even won a national prize. However, he did not begin writing poetry until his return from Germany in his mid-thirties. He has been working as a professor in the German department of Hanyang University since 1980. He has published translations of 19th century German poems , of poems by Bertolt Brecht , of radio dramas by Günter Eich , and of poems by Günter Eich .
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