Yoo An-Jin (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea,[1] or Hangul: 유안진) is a South Korean poet, essayist, and professor.
[4] Yu first became famous for her essays, beginning with her contribution to the prose collection Dreaming of a Beautiful Friendship (Jiranjigyo leul ggum ggumyeo, 지란지교를 꿈꾸며, 1986).
The book, which also included essays by Yi Hyang-a and Gim Dal-jin, met with great popular acclaim, and made her name practically a household word.
Her poetic voice, most often a mother, wife, sister or daughter-in-law, speak to the reader in a soft tone, while closely observing the world around them to seek salvation in their complex lives.
Her efforts to resolve tensions between self and world through the exploration of various modes of women's lives, is not a coarse chanting of slogans, but declarations of a poetic nature, communicated softly, like whispers.