Korea Haiku Poets & Guest Poets

Profile Born in Busan in 1952, she graduated from Busan National University of Education. She spent seven years as an elementary school teacher and later worked for fourteen years in youth counseling at an educational research institute affiliated with the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education. She also operated Mukseojae (墨書齋), a private museum, for fifteen years, where she closely observed the traces of human life, memory, and everyday culture left by the passage of time.

Her many years of experience in classrooms, counseling rooms, and the museum naturally became the foundation of her literary sensibility. Encountering Korea Haiku, a poetic form that captures small moments of everyday life and subtle seasonal changes in concise language, opened a new path of creative writing for her. In January 2025, she officially made her literary debut as a Korea Haiku poet.

Beginning with the inaugural issue of SUMNORGEE in December 2024, she continued to publish her work through the third volume of SUMNORGEE in 2026. In 2025, she served as Chair of the Standing Executive Committee of the Korea Haiku Federation, contributing to the creation and wider appreciation of Korea Haiku. In March 2026, she published her first individual collection of Korea Haiku, Balsam Flower Dye (『봉숭아 꽃물』).

Her Korea Haiku grows out of the distinctly Korean landscapes through which she has lived—the sea breeze of Busan, the light falling through neighborhood alleys, the voices of people, and memories of everyday life accumulated over many years. With an affectionate yet attentive gaze toward nature and ordinary things, she seeks to transform fleeting moments of daily life into enduring lines through the clear and resilient qualities of the Korean language. She continues to write Korea Haiku, recording the small moments of resonance she discovers in Korea’s four seasons and everyday life.