Yoon Dongju Memorial Hall, Yonsei University

Place: Seoul

Biography:

Yoon Dongju Memorial Hall, Yonsei University is a memorial hall dedicated to the Korean poet Yoon Dongju. It is located in Pinson Hall, a dormitory building at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. The memorial hall was established in 2020 to remember the life and literature of Yoon Dongju and reflect on individual attitudes towards history and cultural heritage. It opened the Google Arts and Culture Online Memorial Hall on December 30, 2020, the poet’s 103rd birthday, to share the poet’s spirit and creatively spread it to the world. Yoon Dongju is a beloved poet across borders who sought the direction of the times and life through literature and who wrote it down in Korean even when the Korean language was strictly prohibited under strengthened Japanese colonial rule. His poetry has been read across ideologies and generations, and he lives and breathes in the hearts of the youth.