Hong Shin-seon (1944~) is a Korean poet. His writing career dates back to the 1960s, when he was active as a modernist poet. During the 1970-80s, his poetry engaged critically with the politics of the time. From the 1990s, Hong’s focus shifted to Buddhist thought, and the serial poem Maeumgyung (마음경 The Book of the Mind), which was written over a period over twenty years, is considered his major work.

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.

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

Jo Eun (1960 - ) is a Korean poet. In her early poems, she focused on connecting nature and an inner world, but she has gradually expanded her poetry world to deal with other people and an outer world.

Hwang In-suk (born 1958) is a South Korean poet.