Yoo Yeong
South Korean literary scholar, translator, and poet.
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Yoo Yeong's Degrees
- PhD Comparative Literature Seoul National University
- Masters English Literature Seoul National University
- Bachelors English Literature Seoul National University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yoo Yeong was a South Korean literary scholar, translator, and poet. He was a professor at the Department of English Language and Literature of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea from 1956 to 1983. He taught English Poetry at school, his specialty being in John Milton and Rabindranath Tagore. He was given the Dongbaeg Medal by the South Korean government for his contribution to education when he retired from his professorate in 1983. He translated many literary works such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained into Korean. He was the first Korean to translate the complete collection of Tagore’s poetry. He is also known for his acquaintance with one of the most well-known poets in Korea, Yun Dong-ju. After the poet’s death, Yoo’s memorial poem for his friend was included in the first edition of Yun’s posthumously published collection of poems. Being a poet himself, Yoo published his own poems under the titles Day and Night , The Preface of Air and Earth , The Mind is a Wing and so on. A translation award is being given under his name since 2007.
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