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This study aims to make a traced comparison following the trend of social change for the participation awareness as the common characteristics displayed in the essays of Kim Su-young who is known as the representative poem of participatory poem during 1960s in Korea and Bei Dao who is known as the representative poem of misty poetry in 1980s in China. These two poets were the representative runners of the participatory poems with clear foot print in the literature history, and their essays also have undertaken an important role in displaying their activities and ideologies as the participatory poets. Through the essay collection of Bei Dao, it displayed the activities and life style of Bei Dao after his defection as well as tracing down on what influence would the people he met in his exile and incidents he experienced on the participation awareness of Bei Dao. If there is a difference, Kim Su-young structured the theory on his participatory poetry mainly through the essays but Bei Dao expanded the participation awareness through his life on exile and record on people of exile while displaying the activities of participation as an activist poet. Under this article, their participation awareness as appeared on their essays is compared in three aspects. First, it is the part that the discourse was undertaken (Kim Su-young) on participation literature through essays and records his activities as a participation poet after the revolution in essays. Kim Su-young strenuously asserted his opinion on participatory poems on his essay in 1968 and further dissipated his theory on participatory poetry as well. Bei Dao did not personally mentioned, but through visiting the conflict areas, he occasionally implied the possibility of participation through verbal expression. Second, (it also forms an axis in poetry) it would be the criticism on daily lives where the capitalism has penetrated and this is also deemed as a way of participation.