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Jeong Byeong-uk (Korean: 정병욱; Hanja: 鄭炳昱; March 25, 1922 – October 12, 1982) was a scholar of Korean literature, a bibliographer, and a folklorist. He graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. He worked as a professor at Pusan National University, Yonsei University, and Seoul National University. Specializing in classical Korean poetry, he laid the groundwork for the study of both Korean classical poetry and Korean classical novels. After Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, he authored The Theories of Korean Classical Poetry (한국고전시가론, 1976) and Reappreciation of Korean Classics (한국고전의 재인식, 1979). In addition, he contributed to the preservation, research, and popularization of Pansori, writing Korean Pansori (한국의 판소리, 1980). He is known to have been a close friend of the poet Yun Dong-ju and was the one who published the first edition of Yun Dong-ju's Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poem (하늘과 바람과 별과 시, 1948).