Kim Young-moo (1944 - 26 November 2001) was a South Korean poet, literary critic and translator born in Paju

Paju

Paju is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Paju was made a city in 1997; it had previously been a county .The city is located just south of Panmunjeom on the 38th parallel. To defend the Korean capital, Seoul, many US and Korean army bases are set up in the city. In 2002, the northernmost...

. After obtaining his first two degrees from Seoul National University

Seoul National University

Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...

, he got his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1987. His dissertation was Between Social Liberation and Individual Liberation: Ambivalences in George Eliot’s Moral and Social Thinking. He became a professor in the Department of English Language and literature at his first alma mater in 1981.

Awards

• Republic of Korea Literary Award (criticism), 1991
• Republic of Korea Literary Award (translation), 1991
• Korean Pen Translation Award (1996)
• Third Paeksok Literary Award (2001)

Publications in English

• The Sound of my Waves and Beyond Self by Ko Un
  Ko Un
  Ko Un is a South Korean poet. His works have been translated and published in more than 15 countries and he has been imprisoned many times...
  
  ; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• Back to Heaven by Chon Sang-Pyong
  Chôn Sang-Pyông
  Chon Sang-pyong was a Korean poet.Born in early 1930 in Japan, Chon returned to Korea with his family in 1945 and resumed his interrupted schooling at Masan. The first of his poems to be published was the poem 'River waters' that appeared in the monthly review Munye in 1949, when the poet was...
  
  ; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• Faint Shadows of Love by Kim Kwang-kyu; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• Farmers’ Dance by Shin Kyong-Nim; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• "Pablo Neruda and Today's Korean Poetry," Korea Journal
  Korea Journal
  The Korea Journal is a peer-reviewed, English language academic journal focusing on Korean Studies. It was founded in 1961 and is currently published quarterly. It is indexed in Institute for Scientific Information : Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents: Arts & Humanities...
  
  Vol.36 No.2 Summer 1996 pp.92~104
• "The Poetry of Kim Kwang-Kyu: From Spirit Mountain to Kunak Mountain," Korea Journal Vol.30 No.5 May 1990 pp.27~32