Tag: yi sang
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참새 다방 [Sparrow dabang]
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1 min read
This is the Hangul version of my poem ‘Sparrow dabang’ about Yi Sang (1910–37), an avant-garde Korean poet. Hangul translation by 김성현 (Kim Sunghyun). Read the English version.
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Tang
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Hangul on the wall of Yi Sang House, Seoul. Tang can mean ‘bang’ (as in the sound a gun makes; bang, of course, means ‘room’), or ‘bath’, or ‘soup’.
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Sparrow dabang (참새 다방)
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3 min read
Yi Sang (1910–37) was an avant-garde Korean poet. I wrote this poem after visiting Yi Sang House in Seoul as part of the Cordite poets’ tour in 2011. Read the Hangul version, ‘참새 다방’.