As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems s….

If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle..

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body..

In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son as a halmoni. Any woman who violat….

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry..

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same ….

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up bein….

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I ca….

Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely….

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the diseas….

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere i….

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance..

South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain commu….

My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that reade….

As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's ….

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the a….

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead..

My body is full of graves. A sepulcher is dug up, and a young girl comes out of it with her dusty hands in tears. A lady who is a young girl and an o….

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely..

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke..

We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our f….