Yi Won (born 1968) is a South Korean poet. She was born in 1968 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, but she grew up in Seoul. She graduated from Seoul Institute of the Arts in creative writing, and afterwards she received a master’s degree in creative writing from Dongguk University’s Graduate School of Culture & Arts. She began her career in poetry when she published “Sigangwa binilbongji” (시간과 비닐봉지 Time and the Plastic Bag) and 4 other poems in the 1992 Fall issue of Segye-ui Munhak. In 2002 she was awarded the Contemporary Poetics Award, and in 2005 the Contemporary Poetry Award. She has published Yahoo!ui gangmul-e cheongae-ui dali tteunda (야후!의 강물에 천개의 달이 뜬다 A Thousands Moons Rising Over the River of Yahoo!) (2001), Sesang-eseo gajang gabyeo-un otobai (세상에서 가장 가벼운 오토바이 The World’s Lightest Motorcycle), Bulganeunghan jongi-ui yeoksa (불가능한 종이의 역사 The History of the Impossible Paper) (2012), and Geudeuli jigureul jibaehaeteul ttae (그들이 지구를 지배했을 때 When They Ruled the Earth) (2015). Though she became known as a poet that writes about human characters in the age of technological advancement, recently she has been writing much about the underlying loneliness of humanity.
