[1] Yi Seongbok was born on June 4, 1952, in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea.
[3] Yi Seongbok's poetry evokes events and landscapes unfolding above a horizon of unlimited interpretive possibilities.
As Kim Hyeon stated of Yi's poetry, "It vastly expands its meaning to permit endless questions, not only on an individual or private level, but on a collective and public one as well.
"[4] Yi has attracted attention for his imaginative and multi-layered poetry which features European influences including Baudelaire, Kafka and Nietzsche and often attacks the corruption, hypocrisy, and perversion of the modern world.
Rather, through such distinctions, his poetic world reads more dynamically, and represents the overcoming of life's pain with the strength gained through the exchange of meanings from opposing categories[6]