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….

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 ….

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..

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..

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

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" ….

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

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

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 ….

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing thi….

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….

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….

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

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..

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb..

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to ….

When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a go….

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

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….

You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies, life, and th….