Background
Park Taewon was born in Seoul, of Korea on December 7, 1909.
Park Taewon was born in Seoul, of Korea on December 7, 1909.
Park graduated from Gyeongseong Cheil High School, and entered Hosei University, Japan in 1930 but did not earn a degree.
Park Taewon’s sobriquets include Mongbo and Gubo. Park joined the Group of Nine (Gu-inhoe, a group that also included Yi Sang) in 1930 and devoted himself to fiction thereafter. In 1950 Park crossed the 38th Parallel into North of Korea where he wrote and worked as a professor at Pyeongyang Literature University.
He was purged and prohibited from writing in 1956, but his writing privileges were reinstated in 1960.
Park died on July 10, 1986.
Upon Liberation in 1945 he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Korean Writers’ Alliance (Joseon munhakga dongmaeng).