Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ko Un

Ko Un

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Original – Ko Un is probably the foremost poet in Korea today. His epic collection of poetry Maninbo, or Ten Thousand Lives, which ostensibly contains of a poem about everyone he has ever met, is a monument of modern Korean poetry.

Reason

High quality image of a notable Korean poet

Articles in which this image appears

Ko Un

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Artists_and_writers

Creator

Matěj Baťha

• Support as nominator – Blorgy555 (talk) 14:04, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - Noisy, flat lighting, and the microphone is distracting. Compare with our FPs of Junot Díaz, Terrance Hayes, Chandiroor Divakaran, and Arundhati Roy. This image is useful, but falls short of the aesthetic criteria of WP:FP? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:52, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:08, 4 June 2015 (UTC)