He graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in French literature.
Park spent 30 years as a professor in, Japan, Germany, France, and the United States.
[4] Park published many books and papers, mainly on philosophical topics in both French and English.
He published five volumes of Korean poetry: The Snow on the Charles River (1979), Dream of a Butterfly (1981), The Shadows of the Invisible (1987) and Resonances of the Void (1989) and in 1999 has published his own poetry in English, Broken Words.
Park's 'non' literary works include Roadmap to a Green Korea and The Journey Isn't Over Yet.