Mind bogglingly Sunchon National Department of Creative Writing not only has Korean author Kim Won-il (Evening Glow, House With a Sunken Courtyard) as a professor but it also has:

Kwak, Jae-Gu – Poet who wrote At Sapyeong Station and has work translated into English

As well as

• Park, Chung-Ho
• Jang, Cheol-Moon
• An, Gwang
• Song, Su-kwon

Who are ALL respected and published authors/poets..

That’s some heavy hitters and I am obscurely happy that Kim Won-il is still alive, since his work is so brilliant in English