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Bo Kyung Kim
Bo Kyung Kim
Poet, Peace dancer, Former music teacher.
The author’s original name is Soon Sil Kim. Author was born in Jeju in 1961, in South Korea, graduated from the Jeju Nationa...view moreBo Kyung Kim
Poet, Peace dancer, Former music teacher.
The author’s original name is Soon Sil Kim. Author was born in Jeju in 1961, in South Korea, graduated from the Jeju National University’s music department, became a music teacher, and taught music in a public junior high school in Jeju, Korea. After getting married and emigrating to the U.S., she taught all kinds of people from different racial backgrounds Korean traditional women’s group dance, named Ganggangsuwollae. This dance was passed down from ancient societies, meant to prevent divorce and pursuing mult-racial harmony and unification, as the author taught in communities, schools, churches of Michigan, Ohio, and California.
And she also performed many solo dances to dedicate to war victims, using ancient Korean dances, sublimating it to peace dances, especially, one particular dance for the U.S. Civil War, which is performed in many places. She has also written many peace songs. In order to learn more about the U.S., she graduated from West Los Angeles College in liberal arts, and graduated with a second bachelor’s in Political Science from Cal State Los Angeles. In 1995, she received the New Poet Prize from the Korean literature magazine “Munyesajo.” She has published two books, and three Korean poetry books are in currently in the process of publication. Now, she is living in South Pasadena, California.view less