Many Koreans may think of “sijo” as a thing of the past. Some may recall learning the sijo of “yangban,” or aristocrats of Joseon, in textbooks or know by heart Hwang Jin-yi’s famous sijo poems.
I will soon go to Korea to participate in a conference on sijo, the famous three-line Korean poetic form. The conference will be held in Changnyeong, south of Daegu, a rural area where the Seong ...
The cover of the traditional Korean poetry collection "Afterimage" by Akio Nakagawa [DK] Akio Nakagawa, a professor of contemporary culture at Shokei University in Japan, recently published a ...
David McCann teaches Korean literature to students at Korea Institute of Harvard University. McCann will publish a book of sijo poems titled “Urban Temple” this fall to inspire other writers. Chinese ...
Suppose a Korean writer is participating in an international literary conference. And suppose there is a foreign writer who happens to ask him or her about the traditional literary genre of Korea.
Scholar Lee Sung-il recently published a book of more than 100 Korean classical poems, known as “sijo,” in a Korean-English bilingual edition. “Sijo is a uniquely Korean form of poetic composition,” ...
THE EVER WHITE MOUNTAIN translated and edited by Inez Kong Pai. 175 pages. Tuttle. $4.95. Korea in 1392, as in 1965, was a nation violently divided. The Koryo dynasty was challenged by the House of Yi ...
Akio Nakagawa, a professor of contemporary culture at Shokei University in Japan, recently published a collection of sijo poems titled “Afterimage.” Sijo is a traditional Korean poetic form comprising ...