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I Am Not Korean scrap

I Am Not Korean

  • Author(s)

    Song Kyung-dong송경동

  • Translator(s)

    Brother Anthony of TaizéBrother Anthony of Taizé

  • Publisher

    Parlor Press Parlor Press

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2025

  • Category

    Poetry 시

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

Song Kyeong-dong is a social activist and a poet. He is surely the only Korean poet capable of writing a poem denying that he is Korean, being filled with shame on reading of the way Korean companies, having relocated their factories to Southeast Asia to profit from cheap labor, systematically exploit and abuse their underpaid workers, with sometimes tragic consequences. For decades, Song was a construction worker and at the same time a leading figure in all the great social protest movements of recent Korean history. This collection evokes many heroic protests and some tragic incidents, but the poet never loses his sense of humor and never loses sight of what is worthy of truly human sympathy. He can write a poem evoking the agonies of severe constipation with a wry smile, while other poems quietly evoke the suicides of workers in despair. Song's poems are records of a heroic commitment to social justice.

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Author Bio 작가 소개

Song Kyung-dong

Song Kyung-dong송경동

Song Kyeong-dong is a social activist and a poet. He is surely the only Korean poet capable of writing a poem denying that he is Korean, being filled with shame on reading of the way Korean companies, having relocated their factories to Southeast Asia to profit from cheap labor, systematically exploit and abuse their underpaid workers, with sometimes tragic consequences. For decades, Song was a construction worker and at the same time a leading figure in all the great social protest movements of recent Korean history. This collection evokes many heroic protests and some tragic incidents, but the poet never loses his sense of humor and never loses sight of what is worthy of truly human sympathy. He can write a poem evoking the agonies of severe constipation with a wry smile, while other poems quietly evoke the suicides of workers in despair. Song's poems are records of a heroic commitment to social justice.

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