Chon sang pyong biography of rory

When Ch'on Sang Pyong left this world on April 28, , it was a long-rehearsed departure. He had already left the world a first time in , when the agents of the National Security Agency (KCIA) whisked him away to the dreaded cellars of their building in central Seoul. There he was subjected to torture by water, and also by electric-shock applied to his genitals.

His name had been found in the address-book of a friend from university days, a friend who was now accused of being a communist spy. After six months in detention, he was finally freed, having nothing to confess except the fact that he had friends. As a result of the electrical torture, the poet would never be able to have children.

Cheon Sang-byeong - Wikipedia

Born in early in Japan, he returned to Korea with his family in and resumed his interrupted schooling at Masan. The first of his poems to be published was the poem 'River waters' that appeared in the monthly review Munye in , when the poet was still at school. By he was established as a poet, The unbearable, endurable love of an imperfect soul BEB