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The purpose of this study was to examine the key images of poems written by Kim Young-seok in an effort to shed light on how the images of his poems became significant. It's specifically meant to look into the image of a 'closed' road and that of an 'open' wind to discuss the changes of the poetic images and the poet's unique method of composition. The principle on which Kim Young-seok's poems were based was a paradox. The passages that the road is/one is made to look for another road indicates that the poet is looking for a road that doesn't exist. Likewise, the poet wrote that he would set 'fire' to 'ice,' and such a passion is a contradiction and paradox as well. One noteworthy fact here is that such a paradox never takes place in reality. His attitude of confrontation turned into that of endurance, and he got to negotiate with the world while he fought against it in the past. And there was a change in his poems in that process. In his poems, 'I' look at the world as a member of the universe and express his desire to participate in it, and the self continues to become smaller and smaller as it exists in unitary world(一如的世界), putting aside a dualistic world view. The shift of the image from a closed road to a wind implies that the poet wants to get out of a worldly life yet hopes to be reborn without denying it at the same time. Such a hope is embodied into the image of a wind, which serves to unveil an invisible world. This world can be seen only through the senses and intuition, not through logic or reasoning. Therefore wind becomes significant in his poems as a substantial thing that actually exists, is generated and functions in the world.