page_title: Park Mok-wol
section_title: Awards and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Park Mok-wol / Awards and legacy
caption_attribution_description: 박목월 생가
context_page_description: Park Mok-wol was an influential Korean poet and academic.
context_section_description: Park's awards include the Freedom Literature Awards, May Literature and Art Awards, the Seoul City Culture Awards (1969), and the Moran Medal of the Order of Civil Merit (1972). In 2007, he was listed by the Korean Poets' Association among the ten most important modern Korean poets.
  Park lived in a 37 pyeong (120 m²) house in Wonhyoro-dong from 1965 until his death in 1978. The Seoul Municipal Government had expressed interest in preserving the house as a cultural heritage asset, but his son had to sell it to a real estate developer to cover debts in 2002, and the developer demolished the building in 2004. The demolition, along with similar incidents or near-misses involving the old houses of other cultural figures such as Choe Nam-seon and Seo Jeong-ju around the same time, sparked increasing public interest in the issue of cultural heritage preservation.
caption: A statue of Park Mok-wol in Gyeongju
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