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Born in early in Japan, Chon returned to Korea with his family in and resumed his interrupted schooling at Masan.

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The first of his poems to be published was the poem 'River waters' that appeared in the monthly review Munye in , when the poet was still at school. By he was established as a poet, with recognition from already reputed writers. By this time he was studying at Seoul National University. After finishing his studies there, he worked for a while in Pusan.

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His best-known poem is "Kwicheon". In addition to writing poems, he had also already begun to compose literary essays that were published in various periodicals. They constitute the other important aspect of his life's work as a writer. There he was subjected to torture by water, and also by electric shock applied to his genitals.

His name had been found in the address-book of a friend from university days, a friend who was now accused of being a communist spy, of having visited the North Korean embassy in East Berlin. After six months in detention, he was finally freed, having nothing to confess except the fact that he had friends. Deeply traumatized by the violence he had undergone, he began to roam about, drinking wildly until at last, in , he disappeared.

Months passed, his friends and relatives searched for him everywhere to no avail. They could only conclude that he had died and been buried somewhere anonymously, unknown. In sorrow, they collected the poems they could find, and published a posthumous memorial volume.