With a Burning Thirst is the title poem of Kim Chi-ha’s second collection of poetry. This collection was published in 1982, after he was released from prison. This volume presents Kim’s criticism of President Park Chung Hee’s and his successor… Read More ›
Korean Literature
Analysis of Han Yongun’s The Silence of Love
Han Yongun’s The Silence of Love Love is gone, gone is my love. Tearing himself away from me he has gone on a little path that stretches in the splendor of a green hill into the autumn-tinted forest. Our last… Read More ›
Self-Portrait is a poem published in Yun Dong-ju’s only collection of poetry, The Sky, the Wind, the Stars and Poetry. This collection, published after his death in 1948, includes 12 poems found posthumously as well as 19 poems he had… Read More ›
Analysis of Kim Soo-young’s The Grass
The Grass The grass lies down Waving in the east wind that drives the rain The grass lay down And finally cried. After crying the more because the day was gray It lay down again. The grass lies down Lies… Read More ›
Analysis of Shin Kyeong-nim’s Farmers’ Dance
Farmers’ Dance is the title poem of Shin Kyeong-nim’s first collection of poetry, Farmers’ Dance, and an example of his minjung (folksong) poetry. In this collection, Shin presents us with a heartfelt vision of displaced farmers in South Korea who… Read More ›
Analysis of Suh Jung-ju’s Beside a Chrysanthemum
“Beside a Chrysanthemum” (1947) is one of Suh Jung-ju’s most famous poems. It was originally published in his third collection of poetry, Selected Poems (1955), in which Suh tries to revisit traditional Korean sensibility, distancing himself from the Baudelairean art-for-art’s-sake… Read More ›
Analysis of Cho Se-hui’s The Dwarf
A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf, by Korean author Cho Se-hui (1942–2022) is a collection of 12 sequential stories, including such diverse titles as “Knifeblade,” “Moebius Strip,” “A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf,” “Spaceship,” “On the Footbridge,” “The… Read More ›
Analysis of Park Kyongni’s Land
Land tells an epic saga of the Choi family’s ups and downs during the turbulent period of modern Korean history from 1897 to 1945. The setting ranges from Pyongsa-ri, Hadong, a typical farming village in the southern region of South… Read More ›
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