Park Jeong-dae

Park Jeong-dae (; born November 9, 1965) is a South Korean writer.

Biography Park Jeong-dae was born in 1965 in Jeongsan Gangwon Province, South Korea. He is a member of the poetic group the "International radical poetry" group. Park is well known in Korea for dressing casually - as a child his mother dressed him in a suit for the first day of school and he was so severely taunted that he refuses to wear formal clothes and, in his own words, has "a spirit of resistance and a desire to live freely."

Park has served in the Korea Teachers' Union and is also serving as the editor of its monthly newsletter, Magnolia Report. and the Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes his contribution to Korean literature:

Park has stubbornly explored similar subject matters from similar perspectives in all his poetry. This persistence results from a sense of unresolved problems or issues in the poet's mind which he must pursue continually. Absurdities in life, frightful experiences and situations that defy logic and empathy—these things have compelled the poet to dream of a distant, alternative realm where possibilities of endless love still exist. The poet's attachment to his romantic ideals is in part a product of his youthful years spent in the atmosphere of political oppression and violent struggle for social reforms in the 1980s which undermined individual desires and romantic dreams. Although the poet in real life is politically active and socially responsible—he has joined National Union of Korean Teachers and served as an editor of its monthly newsletter, Magnolia Report—the narrator of his poetry remains a romantic figure who sings to the accompaniment of a guitar, gallop across a green meadow on a horse, and dream of a grandiose dream of love.

Park work has been described as using "idiosyncratic language to express the gloomy existential reality hidden behind the age of consumer capitalism."

Awards Park has won two South Korean literary prizes, the 14th Kim Dal-jin Literature Prize and the 19th Sowol Poetry Prize.

Works in Korean A partial list of works includes; Fragments (1997) In the Gyeong-eyolbiyeol-do of My Youth, Snow Still Falls like Music (2002) Amur Guitar (2004)