He has been criticized for writing propagandist pro-Japan poetry, and making speeches encouraging Korean young men to participate in the war.
[citation needed] After Korea was liberated from the Japanese rule in 1945, Chu worked hard as a businessman to establish and run Youngpoong Company with other partners.
[citation needed] Chu was considered a representative poet of the 1920 and 30's[5] and his work can be roughly divided into those poems composed before his exile in Shanghai and those written afterward.
The influence of the French symbolist poet Paul Fort is especially evident in pieces such as “Fireworks”[6] (Bullori): in a limpid, clear style he sensitively registers the minutest of impressions and manages to lend them a sensual immediacy.
Like Kim Eok, he was a major figure in Korean Literature who pioneered the move away from Western imitation to his literary roots.
He articulates the reasons for this shift of inspiration in his critical piece, "To the One Who Would Write a Song" (Noraereul jieusillyeoneun iege), in which he places the highest value on the creation of beauty and vitality in the Korean language and move on to develop a complete theory of poetry.