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A Study on the Deep Ecological Patterns of Eastern Ideas in Jeong Hyeon-Jong's Later Poems Kim, Dong-Myeong This study was conceived by a need to refute an argument that Jeong Hyeon-jong deteriorated in his techniques and thoughts in his later poems, which were changed from his earlier ones. The study thus identified three topics proposed in deep ecology connected with Eastern ideas in his later poems as follows: First, his relational implementation of life and equality in his later poems is based on his belief that all phenomena of life involving the organisms of Earth happen in relations. The plants, animals, and people should exist in mutual relations for their own self-realization and for the continuance of all phenomena of life. The second topic is that all creatures of Earth's ecosystem are organic bodies with individual life, complementarity, and self-restoration and should embody diversity as living organisms. Comprised of organic bodies, Earth's ecosystem should ensure its diversity not to lose its homeostasis. Finally, man and nature as parts of the life community in the universe make exchanges with each other in creation, termination, death, and revival and make the Earth's ecosystem with repeating phenomena of life. The three topics are connected with Eastern ideas among the major items proposed in deep ecology as alternative thoughts to the crisis of the ecosystem. In his later poems, Jeong overcame the gap between life and death, which was embodied in his early poems, and explored the origin of life, thus deepening the topics.