Category: Poetry

빛을 찾아가는 길 –Path to Finding Light

Published by yami on May 11, 2023

Poem by 조지훈(1920 – 1968) Source Text 빛을 찾아가는 길 사슴이랑 이리 함께 산길을 가며 바위 틈에 어리우는 물을 마시면 살아 있는 즐거움의 저 언덕에서…

Published by yami on May 11, 2023

A poem by 반석. Part of a wider collection of poems posted around the Seoul metro. Source Text 비 한발치 사이로 나란히 걷던 남녀 비가…

Published by yami on May 11, 2023

I wrote the two texts below. I had misunderstood the assignment and wrote one before our workshop. But then I feared that it was too…

Published by yami on May 10, 2023

Translation of 김상요(1561 – 1637)의 시조. Sijo is a type of Korean poetry that consists of three lines with about 43 – 45 total syllables.…

Published by yami on May 9, 2023

A poem by 김춘수. Honestly, one of my favorite poems that I’ve translated. Source Text 능금 그는 그리움에 산다. 그리움은 익어서 스스로도 견디기 어려운 빛깔이…

Published by yami on April 3, 2023

A poem by Kim Sowol, dated to about 1930~1940 Source Text 풀따기 우리 집 뒷산에는 풀이 푸르고 숲 사이의 시냇물, 모래 바닥은 파아란 풀 그림자,…