The history of poetry in Korea is long and varied, with different genres prevailing in the different political and cultural periods. Throughout much of Korea's history, writers of poetry tended to be of the aristocratic class, government...

Korean poetry is poetry performed or written in the Korean language or by Korean people. Traditional Korean poetry is often sung in performance. Until the 20th century, much of Korean poetry was written in Hanja in classical...

Some 167 poems by seventy-one different poets in English translation, with bibliobiographic notes on each poet, are provided by the translator Kim Jaihuin, as well as a table of contents, a note on the translator, a preface, an introduction (which covers the development...

Two poems by renowned Korean poets Ku Sang and Ko Un are analyzed to show how modern Korean poetry is but a mere response to Korean history: Although Ku Sang's work may be described as intelligent and Ku Un's passionate, and despite their different...