Kim So Yeon is a South Korean poet. In 1993, she published her first poem “Urineun chanyanghanda” in the journal Poetry & Thought.
Gong Jiyeong is a South Korean novelist.
Kim Hyesoon (Korean: 김혜순) is a South Korean poet.
Kim Min Jeong is a South Korean poet and literary editor.
Lee Geunbae is a South Korean sijo poet. He is known for his compositions on Korea's traditions and indigenous environments. He is one of the major contemporary sijo poets. In 2002, he was chosen as chairman of the Society of Korean Poets. He has served as the director of the Korean Headquarters of the International PEN. He is currently a creative writing professor at JEI University.
Jung Yong-jun is a South Korean writer.
Choi Dong-ho is a South Korean poet, critic, and professor. He studied Korean literature at Korea University at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He taught Korean literature until his retirement at Korea University, where he is a professor emeritus. He published his first poetry collection in 1976 and debuted as a critic when his critical essay won the Joongang Ilbo New Writer’s Contest in 1979. He has written a number of monographs on the spirit of poetry, Eastern poetics, and geukseojeongsi, a term he coined to describe short, easy to understand, and highly evocative poetry. He won the Park Dujin Literary Award in 2009 and the Yushim Award in 2013. Currently, he serves as the president of the Society of Korean Poets and Sisarang Arts and Culture Association.
Kim Sum is a South Korean writer, best known as the author of One Left, a novel dealing with the issue of Korean comfort women in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Choi Eun-young is a South Korean writer. She began her literary career in 2013, when her short story “Shokoui miso” was selected for the quarterly literary magazine Writer's World's New Writer's Award. With the same work, she received the 5th Munhakdongne Young Writer's Award in 2014. She was awarded the 8th Heo Gyun Writer's Award in 2016, and was awarded the 8th Munhakdongne Young Writer's award in 2017.
Moon In-soo was a South Korean poet.
Park Seongwon is a South Korean writer of the ‘Moonji’ school. Park Seongwon began his literary career by publishing a short story “Yuseo” in Literature and Society in 1994.
Song Jaehak is a South Korean poet and dentist.
Choi Seung-ja is a South Korean poet. Her poetry expresses the melancholy of a person facing death. Some critics have described her work as “the moans of pain by someone who has not been loved” or as "perceiving a world full of lives that have lost their roots. .. and accepting that the loss of one’s roots is a human condition”. Another critic has noted that her poems are “driven by a solitary ego that shuts itself away from a world poisoned by capitalism and resists that world through the language of defiance”.
Jin Eun-young is a South Korean poet and philosopher. She has been praised by the poet Choi Seung-ja, who said “I’ve finally found a poet whom I can call my true successor."
Lee Hyun-su is a South Korean writer. She was born in Yeongdong, Chungcheongbuk-do in 1959. She graduated from Yeungnam University in textile studies. She began her literary career when her short story “Geu jaenanui jojimeun songarak-eseobuteo sijakdoe-eotda” won the 1991 Chungcheong Ilbo New Writer's Award. Later, she won the 1997 Munhakdongne Winter Literary Contest with her short story “Mareun naldeul sai-e” and began to commit to writing full-time. She published story collections Toran, and “Jangminamu sikgijang”, as well as novels Singisaengdyeon, Gilgatjib yeoja, and Naheul. She won the Hahn Moo-Sook Literary Prize and the Mu-young Literary Prize.
Ku Kyung-mi is a South Korean novelist. A member of literary coterie Work (작업), she began to write fiction in 1996. Her fiction deals mainly with the out-of-work, who are labeled as failures in a capitalist economy. She has published novels targeted at young adult readers since 2012. She has won two writing awards: Kyungnam Newspaper Annual Spring Writing Contest (1996) and Kyunghyang Shinmun New Writer's Award.
Kang Hwagil is a South Korean writer and feminist who writes primarily about women, often using unreliable narrators. Her writing is influenced by gothic romance and thrillers written by women in the 19th century. She is a recipient of the Munhakdongne Young Writers’ Award (2017) and the Hankyoreh Literary Award (2017).
Kwak Hyo Hwan is a South Korean poet. Since his literary debut in 1996, he wrote a number of poems based on his interest in regions north of the Korean Peninsula, including Dandong, China, Tibet, Xinjiang Uyghurs Autonomous Region of China, Siberia, and Baykal. In the early 2000s, he served as the director-general of the Daesan Foundation and planned and organized a variety of events for the globalization of Korean literature.
Kim Sa-i is a Korean poet. Departing from the pre-existing poetry about labor whose emphasis is on its purpose, she writes poems that fully represent the life experiences of the working people. Especially, her interest lies in the structural alienation of women workers engendered by patriarchy. Being a former laborer herself, she continues to participate in activism to support the working people.
Son Sohui was a South Korean writer of novels and short stories. A leading woman writer in the colonial and postwar periods, she is considered one of the first Korean authors to address women's psychological struggles in fiction.
