Song Kyung-dong
송경동
Song Kyung-dong has authored the poetry collections Sound Sleep, Answering Trivial Questions, and I’m Not a Korean. He has received the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature and the Cheon Sang-byeong Literary Award. In 2014, he was sentenced to prison for mobilizing what he called the “Hope Bus” movement in which some 200 buses swarmed the site of an industrial protest in a show of solidarity. He is part of the investigative committee examining the blacklisting of artists during the past two administrations in South Korea.
