@article{ART003258583},
author={DAE-HWA BAE},
title={Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo},
journal={인문논총 },
issn={2005-6222},
year={2025},
volume={68},
pages={83-114}
TY - JOUR
AU - DAE-HWA BAE
TI - Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo
JO - 인문논총
PY - 2025
VL - 68
IS - null
PB - Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
SP - 83
EP - 114
SN - 2005-6222
AB - Poet Seon Kwan Lee and ecological philosopher Jong Cheol Kim grew up in the modern city Masan, their hometown. Lee, a student at Masan University, and Kim, a student at Masan High School, used to associate with each other. Their main interest was literature, particularly poetry.
From 1961 the newspaper Masan-Ilbo established a literary section called ‘Student Literay Forum’ , to which both of them contributed several poems and essays from 1961 to 1962. Their works, published in the Masan-Ilbo revel the origins of ecologist poet Lee and ecological philosopher Kim. This essay examines the origins of them. It can be said that Lee’s poems, featured in the Masan-Ilbo later provided a crucial window into his poetic devices and the origins of his ecopoetry and Kim’s poems and essays revealed a profound depth of thought despite his young age, which also showed signs of becoming an ecophilosopher later in life.
The modern city Masan once boasted outstanding scenery, but due to industrial development in the 1970’s, the environment was destroyed, and Masan Bay suffered severe pollution, making it impossible for fish and shellfish to survive. While the beautiful landscape of the city and the problems of industrialization provided the context for Lee and Kim’s ecologism, their essential basis was the poetic sensitivity they possessed in their childhood. Kim praised poet Lee’s poetic sensitivity as an “Original Sense of Life”. This fundamental sense of life also forms the basis of his ecological philosophy.
KW - Seon Kwan Lee. Jong Cheol Kim. Unknown Poems. the Newspaper Masanilbo. Ecologism
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DAE-HWA BAE. (2025). Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo. 인문논총 , 68, 83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE. 2025, "Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo", 인문논총 , vol.68, pp.83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE "Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo" 인문논총 68 pp.83-114 (2025) : 83.
DAE-HWA BAE. Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo. 2025; 68 83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE. "Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo" 인문논총 68(2025) : 83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE. Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo. 인문논총 , 68, 83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE. Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo. 인문논총 . 2025; 68 83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE. Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo. 2025; 68 83-114.
DAE-HWA BAE. "Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo" 인문논총 68(2025) : 83-114.
