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}} Jo Ki-chon (; 6 November 1913 – 31 July 1951) was a Russian-born North Korean poet. He is regarded as "a founding father of North Korean poetry" whose distinct Soviet-influenced style of lyrical epic poetry became an important feature of North Korean literature. He was nicknamed "Korea's Mayakovsky" after the writer whose works had had an influence on him and which implied his breaking from literature of the old society and his commitment to communist values. After a remark made by Kim Jong-il on his 2001 visit to Russia, North Korean media has referred to Jo as the "Pushkin of Korea". Jo was dispatched by the Soviet authorities to liberated Korea when the Red Army entered in 1945. By that time, he had much experience of Soviet literature and literature administration. The Soviets hoped that Jo would shape the cultural institutions of the new state based on the Soviet model. For the Soviets, the move was successful and Jo did not only that but also significantly developed socialist realism as it would become the driving force of North Korean literature and arts. Jo offered some of the earliest contributions to Kim Il-sung's cult of personality. His most famous work is ''Mt. Paketu'' (1947), a lyrical epic praising Kim Il-sung's guerrilla activities and promoting him as a suitable leader for the new North Korean state. Other notable works by Jo include , a seemingly non-political love poem which was later adapted as a popular song that is known in both North and South Korea. During the Korean War, Jo wrote wartime propaganda poems. He died during the war in a United Nations force bombing raid. He and his works are still renowned in North Korean society. ==Life and career== Jo was born to poor Korean peasants in the village of Ael'tugeu in the Russian Far East in 1913. The Pacific region of the Soviet Union, where he lived, was a center for Korean independence activists. He drew inspiration from Jo Myeong-hui who believed in national emancipation by upholding socialist principles. Thus Jo acquired a nationalistic and class conscious worldview in his literature.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jo Ki-chon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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