Kim Yeong-nang
Kim Yeong-nang | |
Hangul | 김영랑 |
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Hanja | 金永郞 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Yeongnang |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Yŏngnang |
Birth name | |
Hangul | 김윤식 |
Hanja | 金允植 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Yunsik |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Yunsik |
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Kim Yeong-nang (January 16, 1903 – September 29, 1950) was a Korean writer from Gangjin county, South Jeolla province, in present-day South Korea. He participated in the Korean independence movement as a teenager, was jailed for six months in Daegu, and lived in Japan from 1920–1923. He died on September 29, 1950 in Seoul, the result of a bullet wound to the stomach during the Korean War.
Under the penname Yeongrang, he was especially active in literature during the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known for writing in the unique Jeolla dialect.
His birthplace (영랑생가), where he spent a significant portion of his life, is located in Gangjin county.
The following is a presentation of one of his most famous poems in Korean and English:
모란이 피기까지는:Till peonies bloom, by Yeongnang Kim
모란이 피기까지는,
나는 아직 나의 봄을 기다리고 있을 테요.
모란이 뚝뚝 떨어져 버린 날,
나는 비로소 봄을 여읜 설움에 잠길 테요.
Till peonies bloom
I shall still wait for my springtime to come.
When peonies drop laboriously their blossoms one by one,
I'll then be soaked in sorrow for my loss, spring's gone.
오월 어느 날, 그 하루 무덥던 날,
떨어져 누운 꽃잎마저 시들어 버리고는
천지에 모란은 자취도 없어지고,
뻗쳐 오르던 내 보람 서운케 무너졌느니,
One day in May as it was so hot and humid
When even fallen blossoms were prostrate wilted,
Without a trace my peonies vanished from this world
And had my soaring thrills to sorrow twirled.
모란이 지고 말면 그뿐, 내 한 해는 다 가고 말아,
삼백 예순 날 하냥 섭섭해 우옵내다.
모란이 피기까지는,
나는 아직 기다리고 있을 테요, 찬란한 슬픔의 봄을
While peonies wither as they may, with them my year's all gone.
Year round for the rest, I'll be all the way down weeping crestfallen.
Till peonies bloom,
I shall still wait for springtime, splendid but yet sorrowful, to come.
(English Translation by MHL)
External links
- Biographical information and list of major works
- Until Peonies Bloom: The Complete Poems of Kim Yeong-nang, ISBN 978-1-937385-03-3, University Of Hawai'i Press. 186pp. July 2011.