Culture (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1895 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 경주 김씨 |
Kim Eok, pen name Anseo, was a literary figure of the late Korean Empire and colonial period from Gwaksan, North Pyongan Province (sources give his birth year as either 1895 or 1896). He entered Osan School in 1907 and went on to Keio Gijuku in Japan in 1913, beginning his literary career as a member of the Pyeheo and Changjo literary coteries. He was the first to introduce Western Symbolist poetry to Korea, helping establish the Symbolist style in Korean letters in the early 1920s, and mentored the poet Kim So-wol.
Pro-Japanese activities. In his later years, however, he wrote militaristic songs promoting conscription, including a poem mourning the death of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, and served as an official of the National Total Power Korea League and the Korean Writers' Patriotic Association. For these activities he was listed as a collaborator by the government's Pro-Japanese Truth-Finding Commission and in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators. He was abducted to North Korea during the Korean War in 1950, and his fate afterward remains unclear, with some accounts suggesting forced relocation to a collective farm around 1958.