Background
Park Jeong-dae was born in 1965 in Jeongsan Gangwon-do, South Korea. Hwang 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.”.
Career
Twenty-seven months later, upon his exit, he re-enrolled in college and made his debut in 1990 with six poems including “The Aesthetics of Candlelight.” Park has served in the Korea Teacher's Union as well as serving as the editor of its monthly newsletter, Magnolia Report.
Membership
He is a member of the poetic group the "International radical poetry" group.
