O Jang-hwan Literary Museum

The Oh Jang-hwan Literature Museum is located next to the birthplace of poet Oh Jang-hwan, Hoein-myeon, Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do. Oh Jang-hwan, a disciple of poet Jeong Ji-yong and a representative poet of the 1930s along with Baek Seok, was born in 1918 at 140 Jungang-ri, Hoein-myeon, Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do. As a child, he attended Anseong Elementary School with poet Park Doo-jin. After studying abroad at Jisan Middle School in Japan, he became close to poets Seo Jeong-ju, Kim Gwang-gyun, and Lee Yuk-sa. While attending Whimoon High School, he learned poetry from poet Jeong Ji-yong. He died of illness in 1951 at the young age of 34. The Oh Jang-hwan Literature Museum, built in 2006, has a video room containing Oh Jang-hwan's life and his poetry collection on display. And it is filled with his gem-like poems. Also on display within the literature museum are early poems published in Whimoon High School's school magazine, poems by poet Oh Jang-hwan, handwritten postcards sent to poet Lee Yuk-sa, and poems published in middle school textbooks after liberation.