Contemporary Korean feminist poetry recitedHighlights
Seoul native reads a collection of Korean poetry.
Readings concentrated on Yoryu and Kisaeng styles of poetry.
By Dennis McClain, News Writing Student
Contemporary Korean feminist poetry was brought to life on campus Oct. 24 through the words of Seoul native Areum Han.
Along with first-year creative writing professor Amy Wilson, Han read a collection of Korean poetry.
Han, 26, has been in the country for eight months.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Trading and Thai Language from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul South Korea.
She said she started reading poetry in middle school.
Han spent her first four months in America in Shawnee, where she attended St. Gregory’s University English Institute.
She now attends OCCC and will study liberal arts for the next two months before she moves back to Seoul where she said she plans to become a teacher.
Wilson said contemporary feminist Korean poets are stepping outside the traditional female subject matter with women like Yi Yon-ju, Choe Sung-ja and Kim Hyesoon.
“To explore feminist South Korean poetry is to explore the margins of Korean poetry,” Wilson said
These words echoed through Wilson’s voice as she read the poetry, and were reinforced by Han when she followed Wilson, reading the poems in her native tongue.
“Feminist poets of contemporary South Korea are using innovative language and are depicting Korean women’s identities, lives and struggles,” Wilson said. “South Korean feminist poetry gives a voice to wo-men’s social and historical conditions, and therefore, it is best understood as a literature of indictment.”
The readings concentrated on two particular styles of poetry: Yoryu and Kisaeng.
Yoryu, meaning female poet, deals with women’s oppressions and struggles that took place in the mid-20th century.
The issues that most of these types of poems dealt with were prostitution and the inability to climb out of the almost literal gutters society was keeping them in.
Kisaeng women, who were government-sponsored courtesans, wrote about feelings and emotion in a time when women were not allowed to express emotions.
These women, whose poems most often dealt with jilted love, were well educated and allowed to write in first person, Wilson said.
Along with first-year creative writing professor Amy Wilson, Han read a collection of Korean poetry.
Han, 26, has been in the country for eight months.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Trading and Thai Language from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul South Korea.
She said she started reading poetry in middle school.
Han spent her first four months in America in Shawnee, where she attended St. Gregory’s University English Institute.
She now attends OCCC and will study liberal arts for the next two months before she moves back to Seoul where she said she plans to become a teacher.
Wilson said contemporary feminist Korean poets are stepping outside the traditional female subject matter with women like Yi Yon-ju, Choe Sung-ja and Kim Hyesoon.
“To explore feminist South Korean poetry is to explore the margins of Korean poetry,” Wilson said
These words echoed through Wilson’s voice as she read the poetry, and were reinforced by Han when she followed Wilson, reading the poems in her native tongue.
“Feminist poets of contemporary South Korea are using innovative language and are depicting Korean women’s identities, lives and struggles,” Wilson said. “South Korean feminist poetry gives a voice to wo-men’s social and historical conditions, and therefore, it is best understood as a literature of indictment.”
The readings concentrated on two particular styles of poetry: Yoryu and Kisaeng.
Yoryu, meaning female poet, deals with women’s oppressions and struggles that took place in the mid-20th century.
The issues that most of these types of poems dealt with were prostitution and the inability to climb out of the almost literal gutters society was keeping them in.
Kisaeng women, who were government-sponsored courtesans, wrote about feelings and emotion in a time when women were not allowed to express emotions.
These women, whose poems most often dealt with jilted love, were well educated and allowed to write in first person, Wilson said.
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