On 20 January next year, he published a collection of the poems he had written entitled Deer (사슴, Sasŭm).

In South Korea, the publication of his works was strictly prohibited for a while because he was labelled as a North Korean poet and a communist.

However, since 1987 when a collection of his works (poems and essays) were first introduced after the Korean War, he has been widely re-evaluated by scholars and critics.

After the defeat of the Japanese Empire in 1945 and the liberation of Korea, he changed his name to Paek Sŏk, and his main residence was Suwon.

In 1918,[4] Paek Sŏk entered Osan elementary school (founded in 1907) and his brother, Hyeob-haeng, was born.

[7] In January 1930, he won the first prize with his first novel The Mother and Son (그 모와 아들) in a literary contest hosted by Chosun Ilbo.

Studying abroad, he enjoyed poems of Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa and was interested in modernism.

He started to work officially as a writer and a translator releasing an essay "Earrings" (이설 귀고리, Iseol Guigori) on 16 May 1934.

On 29 January, a gathering to commemorate the publication of Deer was held at Taeseogwan and eleven people including Kim Kirim and Shin Hyun-jung got involved as proposers.

[7] This year, he resigned from the company and started for his new post as an English teacher in Yeongsaeng high school in Hamhung.

Then, he wrote Me, Natasha and a White Donkey (나와 나타샤와 흰 당나귀, Nawa natashawa huin dangnagui).

He tried to preserve Korean rural culture and language by listing traditional plays and foods in his poems.