Kim Ok was a Korean poet. He is one of the representative poets who led the early modernism movement in the Korean poetry scene, translating Western poetry and poetics and writing his own poetry. He published the first collection of translated poetry Onoeui mudo and the first modern poetry collection Haepariui norae. He taught Kim Sowol as his student, and the two of them composed folk-poetry.
- Occupation
- Esperantist, poet, translator, writer
- Citizenship
- North Korea
- Born
- November 30, 1893, 1896
- Died
- 1948
