He was a professor at the Department of English Language and Literature of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea from 1956 to 1983.
[4] Being a poet himself, Yoo published his own poems under the titles Day and Night (日月) (1970), The Preface of Air and Earth (天地序) (1975), The Mind is a Wing (마음은 날개) (1992) and so on.
He was arrested and imprisoned for 6 months by the Japanese government under the security law set during the Japan’s Occupation of Korea.
The award is being co-sponsored by Yoo Yeong Research Foundation and the Department of English Language and Literature of Yonsei University.
[13] In 2017, the award was given to Uhm Il-nyeo who translated Sarah Waters’ “The Little Stranger.”[14] Yoo was one of the closest friends of the well-known Korean poet Yun Dong-ju.
In an interview with MBC news in 1995, Yoo remembered the poet Yun to have had a sincere and warm smiling attitude, his entire life being a poem (“가장 뚜렷이 기억나는 것은 그 사람의 성실한, 태도, 윤동주의.