Ko Un (born 1 August 1933) is a South Korean poet whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. He had been imprisoned many times due to his role in the campaign for Korean democracy and was later mentioned in Korea as one of the front runners for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ko Un, born Ko Untae in 1933, was the first child of a peasant family living in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. During a time when the national culture was being suppressed under the Japanese occupation, his grandfather taught him to read and write in Korean. He had also learned Chinese by the age of 8. When he was 12, he found by chance a book of poems by Han Ha-un, a nomadic Korean poet with leprosy, and was so impressed that he began writing himself. More information...
According to PR-model, koun.co.kr is ranked 2,401,712th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 1,317,211th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before anthgen.org and after alternativacomunista.it in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
