Not to be confused with Choe Nam-seon. Choe Nam-seon (April 26 1890- October 10 1957 was a Korean historian and independence activist.
Choi Nam-son (1890 - 1957) was a Korean poet early in the twentieth century. Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" The twentieth century of the Common Era began on According to the authority on Korean poetry, Brother Anthony, Choi's 1908 poem, From the Sea to a Boy, ushered in a new, vernacular form, starting a trend that is designated the new poetry.
References
Brother Anthony, "Korean Perspectives on Poetry," http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Outline.htm. Undated (accessed 2006-06-30)