Korean Poetry Research Articles

A Study on the ‘Image of the Future’ in Modern Korean Poetry

A Study on the ‘Image of the Future’ in Modern Korean Poetry

Difficulty in Korean Poetry Meter Regulation and Prosody Education -Focusing on Foot Meter and Syllabic Meter-

Difficulty in Korean Poetry Meter Regulation and Prosody Education -Focusing on Foot Meter and Syllabic Meter-

Singing about Ahn Jung-geun: A Study of Korean Poetry Related to Ahn Jung-geun

Singing about Ahn Jung-geun: A Study of Korean Poetry Related to Ahn Jung-geun

Perspectives on Practice: Sijo, a Korean Poetry Form, Fosters Connections and Amplifies Student Voices

Although most Americans know about haiku, another East Asian form of poetry is less widely shared in American classrooms: Korea’s sijo. Sijo poems are longer than haiku (with 44-46 syllables) and by incorporating sijo into the curriculum, teachers can expose students to a new form of poetry and expand their knowledge of East Asian culture. This article provides teachers with the tools and resources needed to teach sijo.

Reading Choi Seung-ja’s Poetry as University Liberal Arts Education: Focusing on the Case of University’s 〈Reading poetry〉

This paper studies the case of teaching Korean poetry texts when conducting masterful reading and reading classes in university liberal arts education. It would be near impossible to present an ideal and complete list when creating a reading list for such a course. However, in this paper, it is suggested that Choi Seung-ja's poetry should be placed on any list that deals with those times in life when life itself is neglected, as well as used in liberal arts education classes at universities. In our current age, which is seeing an increase in depression among young people, this paper argues that the theme of death as seen in Choi Seung-ja's poem can actually give hope to its readers, and instill in them a level of resistance to death that will manifest as a will to life.</br>In Choi Seung-ja's poem, death is a tragedy given to us humans, but it tells us how to deal with this tragedy so that we can overcome death. The attitude of the poetic persona is repeated and circulated and strengthened, and readers can adopt the courage needed to stand up to death by reading about the attitude of the poetic persona. In this paper, the significance of character education and poetry reading by learners living in an environment of death after COVID-19, can be confirmed in Choi Seung-ja's poetry learning. Learners find a way to overcome death in a finite life where death is a certainty. This process was confirmed in the ‘Writing Poetry Review’, which was written during the process of learning Choi Seung-ja's poetry. Thus, this paper revealed that Choi Seung-ja's poetry can function as a very efficient text in poetry education.

Symmetry in Korean poetry

Symmetry in Korean poetry

Beyond Double Identity, beyond Periphery: Chinese Ethnic Korean Poetry as Borderland Literature

Abstract In East Asia, Chinese ethnic Korean literature has drawn scholarly attention from Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese scholars. They mostly situate the literature within a “double identity” (ijung chŏngch’esŏng 이중정체성) that is both Korean and Chinese and examine how the literature sheds light on the relations and tensions between the two sides of the identity. This article explores the critical potential of the literature beyond the limits of a double identity and within a borderland milieu. The Yanbian Ethnic Korean Autonomous Prefecture is located along the northeast border of China and is adjacent to the Korean Peninsula, Russia, and Japan. Through a close reading of the early postwar poetry produced in the region by the representative Chinese ethnic Korean poet Ri Uk, the article examines how Chinese ethnic Korean literature may serve as a nexus of connection and negotiation among multiple cultures. Those who are familiar with the region know that these cultures have been deeply alienated from each other during multiple rounds of imperialization by regional and global powers. A close examination of the multilateral connection of a borderland ethnic literature with regional power holders offers insights into the ways cultures connect despite historical conflicts and ideological opposition.

인공지능 시대 한국 현대시의 생성시학

인공지능 시대 한국 현대시의 생성시학

生态翻译学视域下李陆史《再别康桥》韩译分析

As a typical Chinese modern poem, Farewell to Kangqiao has a high influence and research value at home and abroad. This paper takes Li Lushi's Korean version of Farewell to Kangqiao as an example and analyzes the translation under the framework of three-dimensional transformation in ecological translation science. At the linguistic level, the translation is discussed in terms of vocabulary, syntax, and rhythm, and the translator highly restores the original poem's artistic conception and rhythm through vocabulary conversion, retaining the original poem's syntax, and changing the poem's rhythm. At the cultural level, the translation is discussed in terms of the translation of imagery-lexical conversion in the cultural context of the two countries, and the translator selectively adapts the cultural imagery in the original poem to make it more compatible with the cultural background and cognitive habits of Korean readers. In the communicative level, the translation of the poem conveys the emotion and mood of the original poem to Korean readers by condensing the words to preserve the rhythm of the original and to make the emotion of the original poem more explicit. Lee's Korean translation highly restores the phonetic meter and emotional mood of Farewell to Kangqiao from three levels: linguistic, cultural, and communicative, and creatively recreate the poetic beauty. It also compares and analyzes the poetic ecology of the original text and the translation under the guidance of ecological translation theory, which guides a new direction for the translation of the modern poetry, improves the quality of Korean poetry translation, and promotes the cross-cultural exchange of modern Chinese poetry.

김수영 시의 리듬 연구

This paper is a study on the rhythm consciousness in Kim Soo-young’s poetry, as a preliminary work to identify the rhythm of his poetry. In particular, it is intended to clarify that ‘speed’ is the main gateway to understanding the modernity of rhythm consciousness in his poetry. To put it simply, ‘speed’ in his poetry appears in three major layers. First, ‘speed’ is the main characteristic of the reality of the time that represents the uniqueness of Korean society in the 1950s and 1960s. Second, ‘speed’ reveals the energy and direction of his poetic thought. It explains how the two vectors of ‘freedom’ and ‘sorrow’ can coexist. Third, ‘speed’ is a major indicator of the aesthetic value of his poetic speech. In general the repetition and segmentation of lines in poetry accelerates or decelerates the speed of reality and thoughts. This change in speed is what weaves the unique texture and stream of the rhythm of his poetry.
 To clarify this, in chapter 2, Kim Soo-young’s perception and attitude toward ‘the speed of civilization’ will be compared with that of Kim Ki-rim. In chapter 3, I will examine the unique view of time inherent in ‘speed’ and clarify that it is in contact with ‘Time of Kairos’. In chapter 4, I will confirm that the difference in tempo according to the length of the execution is the main index to measure the ‘speed’ of poetic speech. The contribution of his poetry to the development of modern poetry is not small in that the critical consciousness of the world and the self is expressed in everyday language and achieves an outstanding aesthetic achievement. In this context, it can be said that the ‘speed’ he tried to realize in free verse and prose poetry diverges the new archetype of modern Korean poetry.

인공지능 기반 한국어 시 생성 시스템 개발 연구

인공지능 기반 한국어 시 생성 시스템 개발 연구

인컨텍스트 러닝을 통한 ChatGPT의 시적 표현 해석 가능성 연구

In 2023, as artificial intelligence(AI) moves beyond the realm of imitation and into the realm of creation, Korean literature is also entering the era of “creative AI,” with Slitscope’s SIA releasing a book of poetry, “시를 쓰는 이유(Why I Write Poetry).” However, the time and cost required to reach such a level is quite burdensome for the general public to attempt.
 Therefore, this study focuses on in-context learning of conversational A.I. that has already been trained through deep learning to explore the possibility of learning about A.I.’s allegory. In particular, by using ChatGPT as a research object, we can gain research advantages in terms of accessibility and functionality over previous studies on the model.
 In order to study the learning potential of ChatGPT in an in-context learning environment, this study consists of a structure of (1) pre-learning verification, (2) output request based on pre-learning, (3) related information input, and (4) verification re-execution of (2) after learning, and examines the possibility of conversational AI learning about poetic alliteration.
 The poetry texts that are input as learning information in the above process are allegorical poetry texts extracted from Yoon Gon-gang’s 『動物詩集』(Hansung Book Co., 1938) because it was judged to have value as the first Korean poetry collection with a single animal theme, which was approached and interpreted from the perspective of satirical and allegorical poetry at the time and even now.
 This study determines the learning potential of literary rhetoric for ChatGPT through the education and output process based on Yoon Gon-kang’s poems, and considers its utilization in various aspects such as education, creation, and education in the future. This will be an exploration of possibilities to solidify the position of literature in the era of artificial intelligence that will become a reality in the future.

Formation and Development of Yoon Dong-ju’s Discourse Since the 1970s-Exploring the Continuity of Contemporary Korean Poetry (1)

Formation and Development of Yoon Dong-ju’s Discourse Since the 1970s-Exploring the Continuity of Contemporary Korean Poetry (1)

Communal Mourning and Contemporary Elegy in Korean Poetry

Abstract An extended period of public mourning followed the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, one of South Korea’s largest maritime disasters which resulted in over three hundred passenger deaths. This article examines leading contemporary South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s narration of collective trauma in her elegy for the dead, Chugŭmŭi chasajŏn (Autobiography of Death, 2016). Drawing on the oral tradition, particularly the songs of female shamans, Kim facilitates a radical empathy with which her speaker enters the physical bodies of the dead and invokes their spirits. Kim’s polyvocal speaker traverses historical memory to excavate these deaths: Autobiography of Death connects the recent loss of life involved in the sinking of the Sewol Ferry with the structural injustice experienced by dissidents who were killed during South Korea’s democratization movement. I argue that Kim places her elegy in the public sphere by engaging the embodied memory of individuals to voice the transhistorical grief of the Korean community.

OLD POETRY OF KOREAN SOCIETY

The purpose of this study is to describe the structure of old Korean poetry. This study uses qualitative research methods as one of the methods to achieve the goal of content analysis. A qualitative research document draws conclusions based on the quality of directly observed data rather than the quantity of measured data. As a qualitative research method, it is a research method that uses the wealth of experience and intuitive views of researchers to obtain in-depth and detailed information about research subjects. In collecting data, researchers used content analysis techniques from collections of old Korean poetry. This research studied old poetry of Korean classic songs which were the subject of study. Old poetry of Korean classical songs, among them, <Cheoyongga>, which Korean students study and are widely known when they are in junior high and high school, <Gujiga>, <Anminga>, <Changiparanga>, <Saeyasaeya parangsaeya>, and <Jindallaekkot> total 6. From the results of the study, it was obtained descriptions of the roles, meanings, and values of Korean classical songs in society in the past. In terms of Korean classic songs that have been passed down to the present day, this is very valuable data because it contains past life and customs before the natural modern era and contains people's thoughts at that time, including images of the time. Since, researchers conduct research in the form of collecting and analyzing data rather than digitizing it, approach it in a descriptive way. 

한국 시의 확장성을 위한 시 창작 교육 방법 제언

The purpose of this study is to propose a poetry creation education plan for the scalability of Korean poetry by presenting a plan to implement narrative and build convergence content for Korean poetry as a way to overcome the limitations of translation of Korean poetry. This is because Korean poetry considered that translation is much more difficult than other genres, and recognized the limitations and necessity of the poetry’s creative education method to realize the scalability of “K-Poetry” in the field of creative creation and creative education. For this reason, it was inspired by the expression method of K-culture, which is popular around the world, in how to build it as a convergence content for the leap and scalability of Korean poetry, and presented it as the third stage of poetry creation education. In the future, we hope that the convergence content that breathes the breath of a new narrative into Korean poetry will actually realize the scalability of “K-Poetry” through an online digital platform based on YouTube and metaverse.

한국 현대시단에 나타난 『주역』

This paper explored how the Book of Changes can communicate with the public and what role it can play through the analysis of how the Book of Changes has been dealt with in modern Korean poetry. Contemporary poetry, which is intended to be covered in this paper, targets poetry books, prose books, and commentary books published by modern Korean poets in the 2010-2020s, especially focusing on the works of Jang Seok-ju, Lee Young-shin, Oh Jung-hwan and Ahn Soo-hwan. This paper explores how the difficulty of the Book of Changes, which is often considered a major obstacle to understand, is understood and interpreted by poets. In particular, the symbols of the Book of Changes let poets experience meeting the object with an open mind away from their ignorance, prejudice, and stereotypes, and in the process, the symbols of it were organically linked to each other and expanded to a new meaning about our daily lives and relationships. Next, this paper analyzes whether the principle of the Book of Changes can still have a meaning for the public in contemporary culture. In modern Korean poetry, it has been examined that the principles of the Book of Changes are embodied as “body” poems that lead to new reflections on life crisis, life, and death in the process of experiencing with the poet's “body”, suggesting poetic sensitivity as a part of great vitality in the principle of organic circulation.

Student Translations of Korean Poetry: A Retrospective Study

In a collaboration between student translators and teachers, they worked to produce Arabic translations of the canonical poems by the Korean poet, Yoon Dong-Joo. In this retrospective study, the revisions to the student translations are classified, explained and justified. Both the translation process and translation product are scrutinized in order to assess the students’ work and to provide an understanding of the translation journey, the aim of which was to produce a poetic work in Arabic that aspires to echo the original text.

중국인 학습자의 한국 현대시 읽기 불안감과 불안 요인에 대한 연구 - 중국 내 고급 한국어 학습자를 대상으로 -

This study focuses on advanced learners who are learning contemporary Korean poetry in China, and identifies the characteristics of their anxiety in reading modern Korean poetry, revealing the factors that cause anxiety, and identifies the pattern of anxiety regarding poetry reading according to various learner variables under each factor. The purpose of this study is to derive educational proposals necessary for the education of contemporary Korean poetry in China. In this study, 34 undergraduate students and 20 graduate students, a total of 54 learners, were selected as subjects in the Korean language department at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China, and their anxiety in reading modern Korean poetry was measured through questionnaires and post-interviews. As a result of the study, a total of six factors of anxiety were extracted, and the pattern of the anxiety, according to learner variables under each anxiety factor, was examined. Additionally, the level of anxiety in Chinese learners’ reading poetry was divided into three categories of ‘severe-moderate-mild anxiety’, and whether there was a difference in the level of anxiety felt by learners, according to the level of anxiety within the six factors of anxiety, was measured. Finally, through multiple regression analysis, factors of anxiety affecting reading anxiety in modern poetry were examined. (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)

근대 전환기 한시의 역할

Although 374 classical Chinese poems were published in Samcheonri, which is known as the core of the colonial modern culture of colonial Joseon, it has not been well explored. To comprehend the meaning of Korean literature’s ‘modern transition,’ it is essential to grasp the characteristics of classical Chinese poetry in magazines during the modern period. From this viewpoint , this paper outlines classical Chinese poems in Samcheonri, and pays particular attention to independence activists, Gim Rip(金笠), and women’s poetry. The exposure of traces of censorship strengthened the meaning of independence activists’ poems in Samcheonri. The translation and commentary of Gim Rip’s poems attempted to soothe readers’ anger with laughter and resentment. Finally, by introducing female Chinese poetry and emphasizing its importance, it accentuated the emotions of minorities. The characteristics of Chinese poetry published in Samcheonri are significant in this study because they provide a basis for understanding the multilayer aspects of Korean poetry during the “modern transition period.”