Life

Park Beom-shin was born in Nonsan

Nonsan

Nonsan is a city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It is located at . Nonsan is also called Nolmoi, meaning dusk or yellow mountain ; "Nonsan" means rice paddies + mountain.-History:...

, Chungcheongnam-do

Chungcheongnam-do

Chungcheongnam-do or Chungnam is a province in the west of South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the south-western half of the former Chungcheong Province and remained a province of Korea until the country's division in 1945, thereafter becoming part of South Korea...

. Park graduated from Jeonju National University of Education

Jeonju National University of Education

Jeonju National University of Education is a national university located in Jeonju, South Korea....

, Wonkwang University

Wonkwang University

Wonkwang University is a university located in Iksan, South Korea....

 and Korea University

Korea University

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, and then made his literary debut with “Remains of the Summer” (Yeoreumui janhae), which won him the JoongAng Ilbo

JoongAng Ilbo

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's New Year's Literary Contest in 1973. In the same year along with the poet Kim Seunghui and writer Jung Hoseung, Park founded a literary group called the '73 Group'. He retired from university teaching in 2011.

“I’ve always gone for the second best options in my life,” Park told reporters at a press meeting held in central Seoul, Wednesday. “It was the only way to compromise. I had too many things to take care of at once. But from now on, I want writing to be my top priority, nothing else.”

Works

Park has published thirty-nine books, including the novel A Filthy Desk, which was co-winner of the Manhae Prize for Literature in 2003, and most recently the novel My Hand Turns into a Horseshoe.
Park writes lyrically but realistically and his works detail the dreams and frustrations of average citizens adrift in a world of base materialism and brutal opportunism., these works render hopes and frustrations of ordinary people in a world marked by vulgar materialism and crude opportunism. Lie Like a Leaf of Grass, the title story of his 1980 collection, is known as his signature work. For the work’s sensitive, even poetic, descriptions of the losses sustained by the Korean people in the period of rapid urbanization, Park Beomsin received the 1981 Korean Literature Prize. In 1979 his novel 밤이면 내리는 비 was adapted into the movie The Rain at Night. is about a teacher who was raped by boxer who stuggled for repir her relationship with her boyfriend and recently Eun-kyo is about two older men who are love with same girl

Works (In Korean)

• Rabbit and Submarine (Tokki wa jamsuham, 1973)
  
• A Balloon Flown in the Morning (Achime nallin pungseon, 1979)
  
• Sleep Deeper than Death (Jugeumboda gipeun jam, 1979)
  
• The Trap (Deot, 1978)
  
• Forest Never Sleeps (Supeun jamdeulji anneunda, 1985)
  
• Lie Like a Leaf of Grass (Pullipcheoreom nupda, 1980)
  
• Country of Fire (Burui nara, 1987)
  
• Winter River and Spring Breeze (Gyeoul gang hanuibaram, 1979)
  
• Fireworks (Bulkkot nori, 1983)

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