She has confessed that the experience of living with orphans had made her a precocious child, and that the recognition of the difference between herself and her playmates early on gave her a unique perspective on the world.

[4] Ra's work shows the "generosity and warmth of the heart", which is "motherly instinct or love" that contains a "critical consciousness of the contradiction and irrationality in life and reality".

[5] Kim Jin-soo wrote that the advantage of her poem is "concise and restrained linguistic form based on the reality of concrete sensory images".

[6] Her first collection of poems, To the Roots (뿌리에게, 1991), and her second, The Words Stained the Leaves (그 말이 잎을 물들였다, 1994), pierce the fog of hypocrisy and contradictions cast over daily life while maintaining a spirit of forgiveness and warmth.

In order to become receptive to nature, she believes it is necessary to “listen with her eyes and see with her ears.” Such effort is detailed in her third collection of poetry, It’s Not That Far From Here (그곳이 멀지 않다, 1997), and her fourth, What Is Darkening (어두워진다는 것, 2001).