He recalls that when he was asked as a primary school student about his dream for the future, he answered unhesitatingly, "to become a writer."
[5] Pak Huijin, who remained single his entire life, admitted in his own words, "I married poetry."
He refrained from participation in writers' groups which often fell into the snares of political ideology, rather devoting himself to the perfecting of his poetic art.
[4] Pak Huijin's poetry starkly contrasts heaven and earth and contradictions between light and darkness.
At first his Korean was inelegant, but he strove to create his own poetic world, drawing upon artistic trends from both inside and outside Korea.