Do Jong-hwan

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| birth_place = Cheongju, North Chungcheong, South Korea

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| office1 = Leader of the Democratic Party

| status1 = Interim

| term_start1 = 8 April 2021

| term_end1 = 16 April 2021

| predecessor1 = Kim Tae-nyeon (acting)

| successor1 = Yun Ho-jung (acting)

| office2 = Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism

| term_start2 = 16 June 2017

| term_end2 = 2 April 2019

| predecessor2 = Cho Yoon-sun

| successor2 = Park Yang-woo

| primeminister2 = Lee Nak-yeon

| office3 = Member of the National Assembly

| term_start3 = 30 May 2016

| constituency3 = Heungdeok

| predecessor3 = Noh Young-min

| term_start4 = 30 May 2012

| term_end4 = 29 May 2016

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Do Jong-hwanThis is the preferred Romanization per LTI Korea. {{Cite web|title=Author Database |publisher=LTI Korea |url=http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archivedate=21 September 2013 }} ({{Korean|hangul=도종환}}; born 27 September 1955) is a South Korean poet"도종환" biographical PDF available at: {{Cite web|url=http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# |title=Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute |accessdate=3 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archivedate=21 September 2013 }} and politician. He is a member of the South Korean National Assembly and former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism. He was also the interim leader of the Democratic Party from 8 to 16 April 2021.

Life

Do Jong-hwan was born in Cheongju, South Korea.{{cite web |url=http://people.search.naver.com/search.naver?sm=sbx_hty&where=people&ie=utf8&query=%EB%8F%84%EC%A2%85%ED%99%98&x=-708&y=-173|title= Naver Search |publisher=Naver |accessdate=8 November 2013}} He received his undergraduate and graduate education at Chungbuk National University, graduating in 1982 with a Master's in Korean Language and Literature. He became a school teacher and was a part-time poet until his wife died just two years after their marriage. This trauma resulted in his writing You, my hollyhock, a collection of love poems which brought him critical acclaim.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} After his wife's death, Do endeavored to embrace his life more fully. With the goal of improving educational standards, he served as the regional director for his teachers' union, and was also active as a regional leader for an organization promoting democracy. Though he lost his job as a teacher and was even jailed for his activities, he continued to fight for justice and better future for the Korean people."도종환 " LTI Korea Datasheet: {{cite web|url=http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# |title=Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute |accessdate=3 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archivedate=21 September 2013 }}

File:도종환 문화체육관광부장관.jpg

In the 2012 election he ran at large for the National Assembly under the Democratic Union Party proportional representation and was elected. Among other things he served on the Culture, Sports, Tourism and Broadcasting Communications Committee, and the History Textbook Committee. In 2016 he was re-elected as the member from the reconstituted Heungdeok District.

File:Alphons Kannanthanam and the Tourism, Culture & Sports Minister of South Korea, Mr. Do Jong-hwan signed an MoU to enhance tourism cooperation between India and South Korea, in New Delhi.JPG]]

In 2017, he was appointed as the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism.{{Cite news|agency=Yonhap News Agency |date=30 May 2017 |title=(Profile) Poet-lawmaker nominated culture minister |url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2017/05/30/0301000000AEN20170530003600315.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603133121/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2017/05/30/0301000000AEN20170530003600315.html |archive-date=3 June 2017 |url-status=live }} In 2020 he was elected as the chair of National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee responsible for scrutinising Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Cultural Heritage Administration and related agencies.{{Cite web|date=2020-06-29|script-title=ko:민주당 32년만의 상임위원장 '싹쓸이'…상임위 일제 가동(종합)|url=https://www.news1.kr/articles/?3980083|access-date=2020-06-29|website=News1|language=ko}}

Following the Democratic Party's huge suffer in the 2021 by-elections, the party leadership was immediately collapsed.{{cite news |date= 8 April 2021|script-title=ko:충격의 與, 지도부 전원 사퇴…비대위 체제 돌입|url= http://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=215092|access-date= 8 April 2021}} He then became the party's acting president.

Work

His first poem was published in 1982. But it was in 1986 with You, my hollyhock, written in part as a tribute to his deceased wife who reminded him of hollyhocks, where the poet's grief at the sudden loss of his love and the intense longing for the happiness he shared with his wife, made him famous. When he turns away "leaving a song by her grave," she follows him home "in the weeping of nameless insects;" when he heads home, "leaving a tear drop upon her grave," she becomes "the rain that soaks through the core of [his] body." In order to overcome his anguish and despair, the poet embraces the world with a new perspective. Through his suffering, the poet has realized that life must go on even if it is more painful than death."도종환 " LTI Korea Datasheet: {{cite web|url=http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# |title=Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archive-date=21 September 2013 }}

Since that time Do has also written about the issue of the division of Korea, depicting the difficulties of a single people living in a divided country. In his work Do suggests new possibilities for uniting the two Koreas. He has received a number of Korean literary prizes,{{Cite web|title= Do Jong-hwan |website=Banipal Magazine of Arab Literature |publisher=Banipal |url=http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/874/do-jong-hwan/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711050625/http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/874/do-jong-hwan/3600315.html |archive-date=11 July 2018 |url-status=live }} including the Baekseok Literary Award in 2011 for From three to five and the Korean Literary Award for Literature in 2012 for Leaning on a tree.{{Cite news |script-title=ko:[서울신문] [제20회 공초문학상] "정계에 발 담근 채 상 받으려니 황송하다" |language=ko |date=26 May 2012 |newspaper=Seoul Shinmun |url=http://www.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20120526020010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120012017/https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20120526020010|archive-date=20 January 2020 |url-status=live |access-date=20 January 2020}}