Literary Symposium Commemorating Writers' Centennial Anniversary

HISTORY

2001
Literary Symposium for Centennial Anniversary Writers :
"Modern Literature, Writers Standing in a Cross Road"
KIM Dong-Hwan, PARK Jong-Hwa, PARK Young-Hee, SHIM Hoon, LEE SANG Hwa, CHOI Seo-Hae
The Daesan Foundation and the Association of Writers for National Literature co-organized a literary symposium for centennial anniversary writers entitled "Modern Literature, Writers Standing in a Cross Road - KIM Dong-Hwan, PARK Jong-Hwa, PARK Young-Hee, SHIM Hoon, LEE SANG Hwa, CHOI Seo-Hae". In commemoration of the writers who were born in 1901, the symposium was held at the Conference Hall of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts on September 20∼21.
Following a keynote speech by Prof. KIM Yoon-Shik entitled "The Way of Looking Back at Modern Literature", 20 participants, divided into poetry, fiction, and criticism, discussed the six writers' life and their literary activities. As part of the symposium, six writers' bibliographies were published.