Park Tae-sun

Park Taesun (; May 8, 1942 – August 30, 2019) was a South Korean writer.

Life Park Taesun was born May 8, 1942, in Sinchon, Hwanghae-do, Korea. Park attended Seoul National University, where he studied English Literature. Park served as the Director of the National Writers' Conference.

Park grew up as part of the “April 19 Generation”, the group of writers who came into prominence in 1960s and whose writing reflects the values associated with the Korean April 19 (1960) Student Revolution.

In “Night on Bald Mountain” (Beolgeosungi sanui harutbam, 1977), Park moves from mere depictions of the powerlessness of the urban poor to advocation of social responsibility. He develops this view further in A Historian’s Youth (Eoneu sahakdoui jeolmeun sijeol), which was serialized in the journal This Generation (Sedae) from 1977 to 1978. A detailed portrait of life and manners of Korean society in the first half of the 1950s, the novel features three main characters who respectively embody the principle of action, experience, and culture. Each dreams of his own utopia, but they come to forge a sense of common destiny through open-minded interactions with one another. The work thus suggests that solidarity may be achieved not only between intellectuals of differing temperaments and views, but between intellectuals and working class people.

Works in Korean (Partial) Falling in Love (Yeonae, 1966) Three-Horse Wagon (Samdu macha, 1968) Theater in Ruins (Muneojin geukjang, 1968) Half Moon in Daylight (Naje naon bandal, 1969) The Dictator's Wife (Dokjaejaui anae, 1970) An Outing (Eotteon oechul, 1971) Incontinence (Silgeum, 1977) Words Left Unspoken in the Heart (Gaseum soge namainneun micheo haji mothan mal, 1977) The Wind That Blew Yesterday (Eoje buldeon baram, 1979 Jeongseon arirang (1974) The Land and the People (Gukto wa minjung - A book of travel essays)

Awards Hankook Ilbo Literary Award (1966) Yeo-San Literary Award (1998)