Jo Jeonggwon was a South Korean poet and critic.
Yi Seongbok is a South Korean poet.
Kim Min Jeong is a South Korean poet and literary editor.
Lee Byungryul is a South Korea poet, television writer, and prose writer. He is viewed as having a tendency for lyrical poetry. He is the only writer in Korea to have published a travel essay and sold more than a million copies of it. For a long time he was a writer for MBC Radio, and currently he is the president of the publisher, Dal, an imprint of Munhakdongne. In 2006, he won the 11th Contemporary Poetry Award.
Lee Sumyeong is a South Korean poet, critic, and translator. Her poetic style has reputation of being unfamiliar and difficult, but some also comment that she is a classicist as well as a modernist. One critic has said that she has already "laid out a completed road", upon the genealogy of modernism and that "many younger poets are working on that road", emphasizing the fact that her poetry was pioneering in how she overturned common usage of words and stereotypes.
Lee Jaemoo is a South Korean poet and educator. He started writing by publishing works on Salmui Munhak, and Literature and Society. He is a lyrical poet that examines objects and inner sides with a subtle but solid voice. He won the 2nd Nango Literature Prize, the Pyeonwoon Literature Prize, the 1st Yun Dongju Poetry Prize, and the Hannam Literature Prize. Currently he is working as a professor at Seoul Digital University.
Shin Dalja is a South Korean poet.
Cheon Yanghui is a South Korean poet, best known for her poetry collection Sorghum Field of the Heart.
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.
Choe Inseok is a South Korean writer, playwright and screenwriter who is a significant figure in Korean Realism. He began writing fiction because he felt limited by censorship. Choe Inseok says the following. "At the time, there was censorship. If you finished writing a script, you had to submit it to the Performing Arts Committee before putting on the show. Then the committee would read the script. They’d cross out certain sections with red lines, demanding an edit, and in the worst case, the show couldn’t happen. You could only put up a show once you passed through censorship. Fiction or poetry would get censored afterwards, but performances would get censored beforehand. Due to such conditions at the time, it was difficult to write a script and put up a play. So I began writing fiction."
Kwon Hyeok-ung is a South Korean poet, literary critic, and professor. He was born in Chungju, South Korea and studied Korean literature at Korea University, where he also received his doctoral degree. He has been teaching creative writing at Hanyang Women's University since 2003.
Nam Jin-Woo is a South Korean poet, literary critic, and professor.
Moon In-soo was a South Korean poet.
Song Jaehak is a South Korean poet and dentist.
Shin Dong-ok is a South Korean poet.
Park Sangwoo is a South Korean writer. He made his literary debut in 1988 when his novella Seureojiji anneun bit won the Munye Joongang Literary Award for Best First Novel. His works include the short story collection Shagarui maeure naerineun nun and the novels Hotel Kaeliponia, Cheongchunui dongjjok, and Kkamaquitte geurimja. In 1999 he received the 23rd Yi Sang Literary Award for his short story “Nae maeumui oktapbang”.
An Heon-mi is a South Korean poet. She won the Shin Dong-yup Literature Prize in 2010 for her second poetry collection, Ibyeorui jaeguseong.
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.
Hong Shin-seon 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, which was written over a period over twenty years, is considered his major work.
Choe Dooseok is a Korean poet. Since his debut in 1980, he has continued to write poems that combine facticity with lyricism. His poems are considered compassionate toward objects, and at the same time, equipped with keen insight into reality. He argued for narrative poetics from a realist perspective.
