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….

Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literar….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, an….

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 mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" ….

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 ….

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….

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices..

When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this ru….

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me ….

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..

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 ….

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us..