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This study focuses on Kim Sooyoung’s view on the time and ‘history’. The time in a poem is different from usual time. Usual world-time or general world-time in the common sense(consciousness) is physical, natural, chronicle and continuous. After accumulation of many past and present, the future arrive. A history is like that. On the other hand, the time in a poem is conscious time and subjective event. The history in it is not object but subjective praxis. Walter Benjamin is worth reference for concept of the time and history. According to Benjamin’s pretation, the modern concept of time is secularization of rectilinear, irreversible Christian time, albeit sundered from any notion of end emptied of any other meaning but that of a structured process in terms of before and after. This representation of time as homogeneous, rectilinear and empty drives from the experience of manufacturing work and is sanctioned by modern mechanics. Whether it is conceived as linear or circular, in Western thought time invariably has the point as dominating feature. Lived time is represented through a metaphysical-geometric concept, and it is then taken as if this concept were itself the real time of experience. Against this, Benjamin posits the liberating experience of time as something neither objective nor removed from our control, but springing from the actions and decisions of man. Its model is the cairos, the abrupt and sudden conjunction where decision grasps opportunity and life is fulfilled in the moment. Infinite, quantified time is thus at once delimited and made present. He posits a present which is not a transition, but in which time stands still and has come to a stop. Instead of the usual representation of the historical progress of humankind, which cannot be sundered from the concept of its progression through a homogeneous, empty time, he puts forward the revolutionaries awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode. Against the empty, quantified instant, he sets a time of the now, Jetzt-Zeit, construed as a messianic cessation of happening. Kim Sooyoung’s concept of the time looks suspisciously like W.Benjamin’s view. Kim sooyoung recall the perfect past which is not distorted by the real life in his poem, (<꽃 2>). At that time, this recalling the past is looking back on not the homogeneous time and chronicle but the time fulfilled. Kim forefeels any other future, unknowing time in his poem, (<예지>). This time is like . This time is connected with liberating time in a political situation. This concept of the history is not transition but stop of common order in the present world. Kim’s posit liberating experience is drived from the action and decision of man, the praxis. It’s a subjective time. Since then he has called this time “the love”. “The love” is potentiality of the history, which is contained in the core of the weaks. “The love” is not object but subjective experience of the time. It’s important that his concept of the time and history is an original thought among the modern poetry in Korean literature.