In 1946, Born in Samsan-myeon, Haenam-gun, South Jeolla Province.

In 1969, after entering the Department of English and English Literature at CNU, he contributed to the movement against the three-term constitutional amendment and the movement against military training at campus.

In 1972, published Hamseong, an underground newspaper criticizing the Yushin order.

Arrested for violating anti-communist laws and expelled from CNU.

In 1974, released 7 poems including “Requiem” and “Ashes” in The Quarterly Changbi.

In 1977, established Haenam Farmers Association, which became the birthplace of the Christian Peasants' Association

In 1979, arrested while working in Seoul as a member of the South Korean National Liberation Front Committee (Namminjeon). He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and sent to Gwangju Prison.

In 1988, released from prison after 9 years and 3 months of imprisonment.

In 1990, published Slaughter, a collection of poems on the May 18 Democratization Movement. Until 1992, served as a director of the National Literature Research Institute of the Association of National Literature Writers until he died of pancreatic cancer in 1994 and was buried at the May 18 Cemetery in Mangwol-dong, Gwangju.

“College Life Was Filled with Total Disappointment.”

“In early October 1972, when there was no class or during lunch break, I wasted time lying down or sitting and chatting with friends with meaningless things. Four years of college life was years of disappointment and frustration. It was to memorize terms and manners for the American way of life mechanically or to exchange sentences in a question-and-answer format only by mouth." (From “Small Kindling Will Burn the Wilderness”)