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朴壽根 bak su-geun park su-geun
 pak su-kŭn 박수근
park su-geun

park su-geun -lrb- february 21 , 1914 - may 6 , 1965 -rrb- was a korean painter .
hailing from yanggu county , gangwon province , south korea park attended yanggu public elementary school when he was younger , and then taught himself painting as was a teenager .
in 1932 , he made his debut in painting circles with his work titled ` spring is gone ' when it was selected for the 11th annual seonjeon painting contest .
park ended up being selected a total of eight times in the contest until 1944 .
in 1953 , he participated in the 2nd annual national art exhibition and won 1st place .
soon after , he became a full-time painter and won numerous prizes on ten different occasions .
in 1959 , he got recommendation from the national art exhibition and served on the screening committee during the early 1960s .
in 1963 , park lost eyesight in one of his eyes due to cataract , and died of liver cirrhosis at the age of 52 in 1965 .
for much of his life park struggled with poverty and lonesomeness but during the 1980s , he was posthumously awarded the eun-gwan -lrb- silver crown -rrb- of order of culture merit .
