Okcheon Jeong Ji-yong Birthplace and Simhaksan (옥천 정지용 생가·심학산)
Okcheon in North Chungcheong Province is the birthplace of Jeong Ji-yong (1902-1950), widely considered the greatest Korean lyric poet of the 20th century and the originator of the modernist poetic language that defined Korean poetry between the wars. The Jeong Ji-yong Literary Museum and the restored birthplace house document his life and works; his poem Hyangsu (Nostalgia) is the most widely memorised poem in Korean literary culture. The town's identity has been built around the poet's memory and the literary tourism programme is one of the more successfully developed in Korea. The Geumsam Valley above the town provides the mountain backdrop.
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