If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul. 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 government that considers her people to be soldiers.

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

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

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 government that considers people to be soldiers.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

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