[1] Park In-hwan was born in Inje, Gangwon-do, Korea during the period of Japanese rule.

Once Korea was liberated from Japanese rule, he quit school and started a small bookstore named 'Mariseosa' in Jongno, Seoul.

[2] Park had been interested in poetry ever since his early teens and in 1946 published his first poem entitled "Street" (거리) in the Kukje Shinmun Newspaper.

In 1955, he traveled to the United States by ship and in the same year published the Park In-hwan Poetry Collection.

One week before he died, he wrote a poem titled 'If times flow,' which became popular all over Korea.