Sol Jong-sik
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| Birthday |
18th September, 1912
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| Birthplace |
Dancheon, South Hamgyong, North Korea
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| Died |
30th August, 1953
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Occupation Text |
Poet, playwright, novelist
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Sol Jong-sik (Korean: 설정식; Hanja: 薛貞植; RR: Seol Jeongsik; 18 September 1912 – 30 August 1953) was a Korean poet, novelist, translator, literary scholar, and politician. He graduated from Yeonhee College, before achieving a B.A. in English Literature from Mount Union College, Ohio, and a master's degree in philosophy from Columbia University. He returned to Korea and became a published poet, and then worked with the U.S. military government and the left-wing Korean Writers Alliance after the liberation. He defected to North Korea during the Korean War but was executed in 1953 during the Namrodang Purge on charges of espionage. He is considered one of the most influential political poets of the liberation period of South Korea.
