He attended Busan Middle School and Gyeonggi High School where he put himself through a strenuous self-training period reading nearly a thousand pieces of fiction, literary criticism and poetry while teaching himself grammar by hand-copying an entire grammar book.
Then again, one might be ensnared in one's own web of ambition; the novel A Crow's Eye View of Desire develops this theme using a sustained allusion to Lee Sang's famed series of poems.
The novel, however, also offers a release from the confinement that is the fundamental condition of existence through violent outbursts of erotic energy.
The novel Love in Our Time (Uri sidaeui sarang) also presents eroticism as the vital mechanism for the free release of inner life.
[3] Thus, eroticism, as well as humor and the juxtaposition of subjective interpretation and objective facts, are the main techniques Cho uses in his attempts to challenge human confinement.