Born in 1924 to a poor farming family in a remote island off the West Coast, he owned a shipping company and ran a newspaper in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province.

• 出生于1924年在西海岸的偏远岛屿的一个贫穷的农民家庭，他拥有一间船公司，跑在木浦，全罗南道报纸。