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The purpose of this study is to consider the meaning of locality in the poetry of Park Yongrae and Han Sunggi. Both Park Yongrae who was born and raised in Chungcheong and Han Sunggi who wasn’t born but lived in Chungcheong for 40 years shows off their abundant sensibility of locality and implications of their lives in their poems. The concrete meanings of locality in Park Yongrae’s poems are as follows. Gongju, Gangkyeong, Busosan are presented as the locality of loss. A cattle fair in Gongju and marketplace in Gangkyeong that were sharply decayed stand for the dreariness they lost everything. The Busosan of his hometown shows the sense of loss by representing his sister who died young as a siberian chrysanthemum. Oryu-dong, Chaeunsan, Hwangsan signify the locality of selfdiscovery. Identifying himself with “coins in Oryu-dong”, he regarded himself as an immature grown-up who didn’t establish his own identity. He felt a grief as he realized himself as an adult who is in a state of deep torpor with his hands and feet tied up while looking at the scarecrow in Chaeunsan. In Hwangsan, he perceived himself as a catfish blind in one eye. Mountains, fields, and countryside represent the locality of aboriginality and vitality. With his poetry was characterized by abundant use of aural imagery such as bell ringing and wind whistling, the writer focused on aboriginality and vitality in his poems. In the local of countryside, he portrayed the fierceness of élan vital through the sound of crickets which survived severe cold in the winter. The paths let him hear the unaware voices of his inside. The specific meanings of locality in Han Sunggi’s poems are as follows. The trails and paths in his poems symbolize the locality of confusion. Paths mean the place that darkness began, and this was the beginning of his path to self-discovery. Islands imply the locality of introspection. With the experiences of living in secluded islands such as Sinjindo, Mado, and Gaido, he could take time for self-examination. Mountains, fields, and countryside present the locality of oneness with nature. At dusk or at dawn, he experienced that darkness or lightness was united with him all the way. Paradoxically, the sound of rain made him feel a sense of oneness with the silence. Futhermore, he was in the state of being one with flowers and frogs, which was no distinction between the subject and the object. As I mentioned earlier, the locality of Chungcheong has the significant meaning that gives creative and unique perspectives and aboriginal mythos that is helpful and meaningful to create the poetry. This study is an attempt for a further study by enlarging the scope of adaptation of locality in the literature.