Korean male poets

Korean politician and academic (1881-1950)

Korean scholar (1337-1392)

Korean poet (1587-1671)

Korean politician, poet and scholar (1595-1682)

Korean writer (1569-1618)

Korean poet (1902–1934)

Premier in the Joseon Dynasty (1539-1609)

Korean writer (1879–1944)

Korean poet (1917–1945)

Silla Confucian & official, philosopher, and poet (857 ~ 908 ?)

Korean poet (1536–1593)

Korean writer (1900–1951)

Korean politician (1471-1527)

Korean scholar and politician (1501-1572)

Goryeo civil servant (1168 - 1241)

Korean poet

South Korean writer

Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet (1915–2000)

South Korean poet (1916-1998)

South Korean writer (1900-1979)

Korean scholar (1534-1599)

Kyunyŏ (or Kyunyeo, ; 923–973) was a Korean Buddhist monk and poet. He came from the Hwangju Byeon clan and his hometown was Hwangju. Among his works are the first extant collection of poetry in Korean, Songs of the Ten Vows Samantabhara, which can be found in The Life of Kuehne (c. 1075).

Korea Goryeo scholar (1287-1367)

South Korean writer

Korean writer (1907–1942)

Korean Confucianist, writer, poet

Korean politician

Korean poet (1901–1943)

South Korean writer (1916–1978)

South Korean writer (1901–1932)

South Korean poet (1908–1967)

Korean writer and politician (1886-1921)

South Korean poet (1960–1989)

Goryeo poet, scholar (1328 ~ 1396)

Korean poet and translator

Korean civil servant (1418 -1456)

Korean writer (1903 - 1950 )

Mangong (, 1871–1946) or Song Mangong was a Korean Buddhist monk, independence activist, scholar, poet, writer, and philosopher during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Mangong was born in Jeongeup, Jeonbuk Province in 1871 and was ordained at the age of 14. Though he spent three years teaching Zen tradition in Mahayeon Temple in Keumkang Mountain and briefly served as the abbot of Magok Temple, he spent most of his life teaching Zen at Deoksung Mountain in Yesan, Chungnam Province. Mangong revitalized the Zen tradition of Korean Buddhism along with his teacher, Zen Master Kyongho.

politician, Confucian and marquis of the Korean Goryeo dynasty (927 – 989)

South Korean writer (1901- 1981)

Early Joseon scholar and painter

South Korean poet

South Korean poet (1912-1970)

Korean Joseon Dynasty's writer and politician (1554-1637)