Kim Hyung-suk or Kim Hyung-seok (Korean: 김형석; Hanja: 金亨錫; born April 23, 1920) is a South Korean writer, philosopher, and professor emeritus of Yonsei University.
He is the author of a few best-selling books which include Solitude (고독이라는 병) (1960) and The Discourse between Eternity and Love (영원과 사랑의 대화) (1961).
[4] Kim was born in 1920 in Unsan, Heianhoku-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan.
[5] He went to Soongsil Middle School where he became acquainted with the poet Yun Dong-ju.
In 1947, he moved from North Korea to the South where he taught at Joongang Middle and High School in Seoul for 7 years.