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This paper aims to examine the identity of location in the representative space in the poetry of Lee, Hyung-gi, focusing on the third book ‘A Dreaming Draught Ghost’ among his eight books. There have been a number of researches on his poetry after his death, however, without one on representative space in his works. This research looks into four workpieces in the book, ‘A Gravelly Field’, ‘X-ray Photograph’, ‘The Sea’, and ‘The Fall’. The main goal of this research is to examine the identity of location in the representative spaces in each poem. Therefore, this study is based on the theory of Edward Relph, a geographer who developed a grand theory on this issue. According to him, the location identity is categorized into two groups: externality and internality. Relph sees that the nature of location lies in internal experiences which are distinguished from the external ones, which leads him to take a close look on the internality that one identifies oneself to and feels belonged to. This paper chose four works which stands for four internalities that Edward Relph categorized to study identities in each representative poetic space. The result shows that Lee illustrated consistent location identity through spaces in his work. It is grounded on the perception of Satanism. This can be also confirmed in his interviews, where he states that the poetry is revenge to absurdity. He addressed that he revealed the Satanism of discord and severance through grotesque words in order to resist the absurd world. This paper could confirm that he showed experimental poetic world which refuses the uniformity and satanistic internal world which aims to destroy existing order in his representative spaces.