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….

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 ….

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

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

I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. N….

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poet….

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a p….

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm..

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly..

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..

We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting….

Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do triv….

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

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….

Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call "….

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that di….

I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude..

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else..

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons..

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….

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….