[1] Park Je-chung was born in Seoul, Korea on 23 March 1945.
[2] Park graduated from Dongguk University in 1966 and immediately debuted as a poet in the Hyundai Munhak monthly.
[3] Park became a member of the literary coterie Poetic Thought in 1983 and in 1995 helped to found the magazine Literary Academy, for which he served as publisher and editor.
He also taught at Kyonggi University and served as an official of the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation.
[4] The Korea Literature Translation Institute has summarized Park's contributions to Korean literature: Collections of Poetry Collections of Critical Essays Essays