[1][2] Kim Soo-young was a Korean poet and translator whose poetry explored love and freedom as poetic and political ideals.
Kim, who taught English at Sunrin Commercial High School later in life, began working for Weekly Pacific (Jugan taepyeongyang) and Pyeonghwa Newspaper after returning to Seoul in 1954.
The following year, Kim retired from his work and began a poultry farming operation from his home, in order to devote himself to poetry, translation and literary criticism.
He published a poetry collection entitled Play of the Moon (Dallaraui Jangnan), for which he received the first Poet's Association Award.
[6] Kim's early poems were in a Modernist style, though later he changed directions, using everyday language in addressing social issues.