A memorial recently reopened to remember Korean poet Yun Dong-ju, who lived tormented by the grim reality that his countrymen were prohibited from using his native tongue during Japan's annexation of Korea.

A novel on the last ten months of his life was also published to remember Yun, who died in 1945 at 27 as a victim of Japan's biological experiments on living people.

Writing poems might have been considered a luxury while the nation was under Japanese colonial rule. But Yun resisted Japan’s colonization and struggled and cried out for his country through poetry.

The poet’s short life has been serving as a source of imagination for artists and reborn in new artistic works.