Kim Ok (poet)

Kim Ok (Korean: 김억; 1896–unknown) was a Korean poet. He is one of the representative poets who led the early modernism movement in the Korean poetry scene, translating Western poetry and poetics and writing his own poetry. He published the first collection of translated poetry Onoeui mudo (오뇌의 무도 Dance in Agony; 1921) and the first modern poetry collection Haepariui norae (해파리의 노래 The Song of Jellyfish; 1923). He taught Kim Sowol as his student, and the two of them composed folk-poetry.