Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

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

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.