While still relatively young Pak Hyeongjun moved from his countryside hometown of Jeongeup to Incheon, South Korea's third-most populated city after Seoul and Busan.
[2] Pak confessed that this experience inspired him to begin writing poetry, saying that, while he was living in Incheon, he "felt often as if I was stagnant even though I was endlessly drifting.
"[3] At Seoul Institute of the Arts, Pak Hyeongjun studied under the well-known poets Oh Kyu-won and Choe Ha-rin.
[4] Pak began his literary career when his poem "The Strength of Furniture" (가구의 힘) won the Korea Times New Writer's Award in 1991.
"[6] His first poetry collection, I Would Now Like To Talk About the Disappearance (나는 이제 소멸에 대해서 이야기하련다, 1994), was very well received by critics.