Writer Ko Un turns ninety: Nobel Prize candidate from Korea

2023-08-01 09:58:18

For the ninetieth birthday of Korean writer Ko Un

Ko Un turns ninety

Permanent candidate for the Nobel Prize

By Andreas Plathaus

He himself likes to sign his poetry with “poet and national hero”. But most recently, Ko Un has been accused of sexual assault in his home country. But he has remained Korea’s eternal Nobel Prize candidate.