Shim Bo-seon
college teacher, poet
Shim Bo-Seon (Korean: 심보선, born 1970) is a South Korean poet and university professor.
Biography
He was born 1970 in Seoul, graduated from Seoul National University in Sociology, and then completed a master's degree at the same university. Afterwards he earned a doctorate degree in sociology at Columbia's graduate school. He debuted in 1994 as his poem "Punggyeong" (풍경 Landscape) won the Chosun Ilbo Annual Spring Literary Contest Award. With his first poetry collection, Fifteen Seconds Without Sorrow (슬픔이 없는 십오 초) (Moonji Publishing, 2008), which was published 14 years after his literary debut, he received widespread adoration from the public and heated attention from the literary circle. He is also active in the administrative area of cultural arts, and has also raised criticism on Shin Kyung-sook's plagiarism scandal in 2015. In 2009 he was awarded the 16th Kim Junseong Literature Prize, and the 11th Nojak Literature Prize. He is currently serving as an editor for F, a liberal arts magazine, and is also working as a professor of arts and cultural management at the Kyung Hee Cyber University.
Writing
Shim Bo-Seon's poetry offers readers clairvoyance that closely examines reality, and an in-depth experience that goes right through the middle of that reality, while also offering the strength and humor of objectivity that lays down what can be called a poetic avenue right there. His poetry, in expressing the urban depression amidst modern capitalism, uniquely depicts the loneliness within the late capitalist society as well as the philosophical observation on it.
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