[1] Moon Deoksu was born December 8, 1928, in Haman County Keishōnan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan.

He worked for the Magazine, Shidan and served in many organizations including as President of the Poetry Second of the Korean Literature Association; President of the Modern Poet's Association; Vice Director of the Korean Literature Association; Director, Vice President, and President of the Korean branch of P.E.N.

Moon also taught at Jeju and Hongik University, and served as a Dean of the College of Education at the latter.

Recommended by Yoo Chihwan, he made his literary debut in 1955 with his “Silence” (Chimmuk), “Foil” (Hwaseok) and “In the Wind” (Baram sogeseo) published in Contemporary Literature (Hyeondae munhak).

[4] The Literature Translation Institute of Korea describes his work Poetry collections Criticism and theory