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Chae, Ho-ki have configured `the body' theme through 4 collections of poems. His poems have a new gaze on the body, which was recognized as inferior as the mind sublime and as the immortal soul. The body was disregarded and abused than the conscious and logical mind in the western logos-centrism which have provided privileges from the era of Descartes' Cogito, therefore his poems are is also the works of restoration of the body as the same position of the mind. So the poems of Chae are quite noticeable in choosing the body, not tortured by the consciousness and the logics and fused as one, as a poetic object. In his poems, the body is the place of mutual response and communication with others, not of the infringement. In the body, through his poems, consciousness melt and flows, and the mind is permeated throughout the body. The other and the world are understood by the process of attainment through the senses of the body. It is the place of perception before truth and falsehood have judged. Their experiences cannot be perfectly expressed by the reflective thought and language. The sense of logics would be said as the circuits of existence, for it could be connected, read, and translated with the various network of meanings. The body attains the existential and historical meanings of individuals through the social relationship; that is, the body has the otherness deep inside. So the scars, which is inscribed as the meaning of existential experiences and as the historical documents, are the entrances and signifiers for understanding and permeating. Chae's poems are placed in the poetical strategies which hopes consolidation with the other body, and hopes catching the conditions of pre-ordered body through the language. Two bodies hurt each other, and their scars are permeated, and their traces are inscribed delicately to the poems of Chae. Chae, Ho-ki finds the theme of the body through the love of altruism, and he has written the consistent poems of the body and its languages. His poetic works are meaningful in the sense that the poems are born in the body, and his poems pursues the meaning of the body and the practice of love, in spite of its danger of tautologies like 'I' and 'the other', 'the body' and 'the language'. His poems are in the path of attainment for poetic essence beyond the limitations of language, and his sincere writing by body language shows the attitude for poetic essence.