Do has been hailed for his use of simple, unadorned language in lyrical tributes to love and sorrow, underlined by an integrity informed by historical awareness. He emerged as a literary sensation with his second collection, Jeopsikkot dangsin, written in part as a tribute to his deceased wife who reminded him of hollyhocks.

Ra Heeduk (born 1966) is a South Korean poet and professor.

Pak Yongcheol (1904-1938) was a Korean poet, critic, and translator. An opponent of the proletarian literature’s ideology and modernism’s focus on technical craft, Pak Yongcheol led the Simunhakpa (시문학파 Poetic Literature Faction) that pursued the purity of literature. Amid the dispute on technical craft between figures such as Im Hwa and Kim Kirim, Pak Yongcheol proposed the “theory on pure poetry” that was later carried on by writers like Jo Jihun and became the theoretical foundation of the Korean Writers Association.

An Doseop (1933~) is a South Korean poet. He made his literary debut in 1958 when his poems “Bulmoji” (불모지 Wasteland) and “Haedanghwa” (해당화 Sweetbrier) won the Chosun Ilbo New Writer’s Contest and the Pyunghwa Shinmun New Writer’s Contest respectively. He has written poems set against the backdrop of Korean history, including an epic poem about the Donghak Peasants` War. He has received the Heo Gyun Literary Award and the Seol Song Literary Award. •Poetry collection Saeya, nokdusaeya (새야, 녹두새야) (2002)

Born in 1977, she was the one who wrote and burned countless pages of poetry in her 20s, but never for a second thought there would be a book of poetry under her name 20 years later. The individual who never expected that a poetry book would be a part of her destiny. The person who believes such a destiny will be eternal, observing that she cannot fall asleep without a notepad and pen close to her chest.