Pak Chaesam was born in 1933 in Tokyo, Japan and attended Korea University. His first book of poems The Mind of Chunhyang was published in 1962. His other books include In the Sunshine (1970), A Thousand Year-old Wind (1975), Besides the Young Ones (1976), The Autumn Tree Listening to the Rain (1981), My Love (1985), An Autumn River In Tears Afire (1987), and The Trace of the Sun and the Moon (1990).