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Korean proletarian poet and literary theorist. His real name was Lim In-sik. He was born in Seoul. He studied in Tokyo in 1929, and after returning to Korea, he became secretary-general of the Korean Proletarian Arts League in 1932. When the League was forcibly dissolved by Japan in 1935, he devoted himself to the study of literary history. Immediately after liberation, he organized the Korean Writers League in Seoul, and in 1947 crossed the 38th parallel into North Korea, but was executed in 1953 as an American spy connected to Park Hun-young. His response poem to Nakano Shigeharu's Shinagawa Station in the Rain, "Yokohama Pier with an Umbrella" (1929), is one of his representative works of lyrical proletarian poetry. His works include the collection of poems "Genkai Nada" (1938) and the collection of essays "The Logic of Literature" (1940), among others.

[Masuo Ohmura]

"The Poet of the North" by Seicho Matsumoto (1964, Chuokoron-Shinsha)" ▽ "The Conspiracy Exposed" translated and edited by the Modern Korea Research Association (1954, Sundaisha)

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朝鮮のプロレタリア詩人、文芸理論家。本名は林仁植。ソウル生まれ。1929年東京に留学、帰国後32年から朝鮮プロレタリア芸術同盟書記長。35年同盟が日本により強制解散させられると文学史研究に沈潜。解放直後ソウルで朝鮮文学家同盟を組織、47年に38度線を越えて北朝鮮に入ったが、53年朴憲永(ぼくけんえい)につながるアメリカのスパイとして処刑された。中野重治(しげはる)の『雨の降る品川駅』への応答詩『雨傘さす横浜の埠頭(ふとう)』（1929）は、彼の叙情的プロレタリア詩の代表作の一つである。詩集『玄海灘(げんかいなだ)』（1938）、評論集『文学の論理』（1940）ほかの著書がある。

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『松本清張著『北の詩人』（1964・中央公論社）』▽『現代朝鮮研究会訳編『暴かれた陰謀』（1954・駿台社）』

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