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n 2008, the one hundredth anniversary of Korean modern poetry and literature was celebrated and related academic events were held and books were published. The year one or 1908 was designated as such due to the fact Choi Nam-sun published his first “shinchesi (new poetry)”, From Sea To A Boy in the first issue of So-Nyeon (Boy), the first modern magazine in Korea, in November of the year. However, Choi failed to realize the historic significance of his poem
and wasn’t aware that his new style of writing poem ushered in a new ear of the Korean literature. Thus his status as the pioneer of the Korean modern literature, even if it wasn’t entirely based on hype, could be considered as accidental and extrinsic. Thus, I propose to move focus onto around 1925, when after a series of trial and error in writing poetry in modern style, the poetic
potential of modern Korean language finally realized and settled in the style of free verse poetry, bringing about some significant literal accomplishments such as Azaleas by Kim So-wol, The Silence Of The Beloved by Han Yong-woon. Im Hwa’s theory of literature trans-plantation was focused on the role of translation and copying of western poetry in the process of learning to write modern poems. However, I prefer the notion of appropriation to transplantation as a
tool to properly capture the dynamism of such literary phenomenon.