Late poets Yoon Dong-ju, Kim Nam-jo receive Korea’s highest cultural honor

Yoon Dong-ju, one of Korea’s most beloved poets, whose introspective Korean-language poetry captured the pain of life under Japanese colonial rule, and Kim Nam-jo, one of the most prominent female poets of postwar Korea, were posthumously awarded the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the country’s highest cultural h…

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