Che Ho-ki

Che Ho-ki
Hangeul	채호기
Revised Romanization	Chae Ho-gi
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'ae Ho-gi
See also : Korean name

Che Ho-ki (born October 13, 1957 in Taegu ) is a South Korean poet .

Life

Che Ho-ki was born in Taegu on October 13, 1957. He studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and completed a postgraduate course at Daejeon University in Korean language and literature. He currently teaches as Professor of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

He published his first poem in 1988. Che Ho-ki is now one of the most important voices in South Korean poetry. In his poems he tries to dissolve the boundary between object and language and distances himself from the usual emotional connection between the content. For example, love is neither an idea nor an emotional state for him, but rather focuses on its physicality and mortality. Desire is also objectified in his poems.

His latest volume of poems, inevitably subject to wrestling ( 레슬링 질 수밖에 없는 ) was published in February 2014.

Work

• 지독한 사랑 Cruel Love (1992) ISBN 9788932005560
• 슬픈 게이 The Sad Gay (1994) ISBN 9788932007151
• 밤 의 공중 전화 Public Telephone of the Night (1997) ISBN 9788932009223
• 수련 Water lily (2002) ISBN 9788932013428
• 손가락 이 뜨겁다 Hot Fingers (2009) ISBN 9788932019642
• 레슬링 질 수밖에 없는 Inevitably inferior when wrestling (2014) ISBN 9788932025339

Awards

• 2007 - 올해 의 출판 인상 ( Publisher's Award of the Year )
• 2007 - 제 8 회 현대 시 작품상 ( Prize for contemporary poetry )
• 2002 - 제 21 회 김수영 문학상 ( Kim Soo-young Literature Prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 채호기 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 29, 2014 
2. ↑ Naver 인물 검색: 채호기 , accessed June 29, 2014 (Korean)
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Chae Ho-ki ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 29, 2014 
4. ↑ Hankook Ilbo : [1] , accessed June 29, 2014 (Korean)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Che is the family name here, Ho-ki is the first name.