[1] Park Nam-su was born on April 3, 1918, in Pyongyang, Heian'nan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan.
[2] Park graduated from Chuo University, Tokyo, in 1941.
[3] after graduating from Pyeongyang Soongin Industrial High School.
Park also worked for the Pyeongyang branch of the Korean Colonial Bank, though he had already begun his writing career.
[4] Although Park was born in what would become North Korea, he emigrated to the South in 1951 and later to United States in 1973.