Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

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.

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.

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

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.