"Part", Nwi-Yeon Kim's debut novel and the second publication by Oemil Publishing, is a work that seeks to become a novel by gradually emptying or reinterpreting portions of the story while expanding other aspects to fill its narrative. It attempts to craft a novel by excluding events in favor of descriptions, exploring themes that aim to escape their own boundaries, experimenting with subjects that shift between being the object of writing and the writer's object, presenting characters that move independently of the narrator observing the novel, and rethinking the physical space of the book—the pages that hold the text.   The narrative's reflections on space transition into reflections on time, while its considerations of the novel extend into thoughts about exhibitions, performances, theater, and film. Through these expansive contemplations, the novel unfolds as a movement across multiple domains of literature. Prose, poetry, and drama begin to intertwine, and fiction sporadically emerges within the structure of nonfiction. The parts of the text embrace each other circularly, rolling forward as they expand the story.   "Part" is a work that practices being a novel while existing outside its traditional boundaries, gradually transforming into a novel in its own right. [Reference: YES24]   About the author   Nwi-Yeon Kim A poet. Presented documents in collaboration with Yong-Wan Jeon in performances and exhibitions such as "Literary Walking", "Rhetoric: Ornament and Digression", "Conclusion", and “Room”. Authored works including "Graph Paper Eraser", "Part", and "Untitled Without a Document". [Reference: YES24]

If the Earth Dies, where will the Moon Orbit?   'The poet of poets,' Hye-Soon Kim, who has continually renewed the aesthetics of Korean contemporary poetry with the language of the body in defiance of dominant language, has released her fourteenth poetry collection, “If the Earth Dies, where will the Moon Orbit?”, through Munhakdongne Publishing. This is her first poetry collection in three years since “Phantom Pain of Wings” (2019). Since she began publishing poetry in 1979, Hye-Soon Kim has stood at the forefront of poetic bodies that part ways with ‘institutionalized histories before anything else’ (as described by critic Kwang-Ho Lee). Her collections transcend the works of a single poet, becoming constellations that connect the most cutting-edge points of contemporary Korean poetry and serve as archives of poetic experimentation. She has achieved a 'unique poetic accomplishment' through her 'unceasing contemplation of the way women exist' (as noted by the judges for the Samsung Ho-Am Prize for the Arts). Her poetry is true to the emotions and identities embodied in women's bodies, delivering a voice where tenderness and rage coexist, cutting through nightmares and darkness, and opening new poetic ecstasies (as noted by the judges for the Swedish Cikada Prize), solidifying her distinct international presence.   In “If the Earth Dies, where Will the Moon Orbit?”, Hye-Soon Kim laments the death of the world. The first section contains poems of lamentation, written during her mother's illness and after her passing. The second section reflects the despair of an era facing the global disaster of COVID-19. The third section is a record of wandering through the empty desert, outside of death. The poet, while processing personal experiences of illness and death, gazes upon the death of the world and each fragment of grief hidden within those deaths. In seeking solidarity in sorrow, she watches with all her strength what the scattered pieces of life, broken like sand, are doing in the desert of oblivion, which is death itself. Through Hye-Soon Kim's poetry, we come to realize that death is something we must endlessly experience and endlessly resist within life—something we suffer as we live. [Reference: YES24]   About the author   Hye-Soon Kim Hye-Soon Kim began her literary career in 1979 through the magazine Munhakgwa Jiseong (Literature and Intellect). She has published several poetry collections, including From “Another Star”, “The Scarecrow My Father Built”, “The Hell of One Star”, “Our Yin-Painting”, “My Upanishad, Seoul”, “Poor Love Machine”, “Dear Calendar Factory Manager”, “A Glass of Red Mirror”, “Your First”, “Sorrow-toothpaste Mirror-cream”, “Rise”, “Pig”, “Autobiography of Death”, and “Phantom Pain of Wings”. She has received numerous awards, including the Kim Sooyoung Literary Award, Hyundae Literary Award, Sowol Poetry Award, Midang Literary Award, Daesan Literary Award, Griffin Poetry Prize, Swedish Cikada Prize, and the Samsung Ho-Am Prize for the Arts. She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Literary Arts at Seoul Institute of the Arts. [Reference: YES24]

I Love You Like an Old Street   Poet Eun-Young Jin’s new poetry collection after 10 years Discovering beauty in the worn-out realities of everyday life.   Since her debut in 2000 with Literature and Society, Eun-Young Jin has published a series of poetry collections: “A Dictionary of Seven Words” (2003), “We Are Every Day” (2008), and “Stolen Songs” (2012). With her latest work, “I Love You Like an Old Street” (Munhakdongne, 2022), she returns after a decade to continue her exploration of sensitive metaphors and vivid imagery. Eun-Young Jin rearranges the worn and familiar elements of daily life while infusing a sharp awareness of contemporary issues, using philosophical reflection and poetic politics. In a lecture on the social position and function of poetry (and poets), she once remarked, “Poets converse by being silent.” This new collection, comprising 42 intense and evocative poems, listens to the often-overlooked voices of society, shedding light on diverse life struggles. Through these beautiful yet challenging works, Eun-Young Jin makes visible those lives that are often obscured in mainstream discourse. Amidst the past filled with absence and a present fraught with insecurity and sorrow, her poems lead us toward the future, where, as she writes in "Together," we "swim through darkness and walk in light," holding each other's hands. Her poems express the power of love, shared pain, and the effort to comfort one another’s loneliness. [Reference: YES24]   About the author   Eun-Young Jin Eun-Young Jin graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in Philosophy and also completed her graduate studies there. She began her literary career in 2000 by publishing poetry in ‘Literature and Society’. Eun-Young Jin currently teaches literature counseling at Korea Counseling Graduate University and continues to write poetry. She has published several collections, including A “Dictionary of Seven Words”, “We Are Every Day”, “Stolen Songs”, and “I Love You Like an Old Street”. She has received numerous prestigious awards such as the Daesan Literary Award, Hyundae Literary Award, Cheon Sang-byeong Poetry Award, and Baek Seok Literature Award. She has also translated Sylvia Plath's novella “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” into Korean. [Reference: YES24]

Transparency Blended Space   A re-world built layer upon layer A “transparency that cannot be missed” in its beauty   This poetry collection, which contains 53 poems divided into four parts, stands out for its perspective that perceives the world through 'light' as a medium. The title of the collection, "Transparency Blended Space", refers to a term used in graphic software for color spaces like RGB and CMYK. It is a concept that represents color, brightness, and saturation in three dimensions, showing how the same image can produce different outcomes depending on the color space in which it is displayed.   Despite its limitations, the poet consistently chooses to show rather than tell. Using 'language' as material, they aim to reconstruct the world they have witnessed into something visible. Thus, in a semi-transparent world layered upon itself, the poet reveals a transparent beauty that can now be seen here, a beauty that "cannot be missed." [Reference: YES24]   About the author Li-Yoon Kim   Li-Yoon Kim began their literary career in 2019 by winning the New Literature Award from Literature and Society. In 2021, they changed their pen name from Ji-Yeon Kim to Li-Yoon Kim. [Reference: YES24]

"Set"   “From afar, you come running. You come alive in this place.”  A poem that dissolves the boundaries of existence and Love completed through transparent unity.   Poet Seon-oh Kim, known for his sensuous and beautiful language, has published his second poetry collection, “Set”. With a recommendation from fellow poet In-chan Hwang, who remarked, “It seems as though he is obsessively declaring the end of love in order to destroy the impossibility of love,” Seon-oh Kim has gathered 55 poems that he consistently wrote and refined over two years, following his debut collection “Night Soccer”.   Unlike his previous work, where he evoked the eternity of love through the absence of “you,” Seon-oh Kim, in this new collection, seeks to shift the perspective towards the other. Through a method that “slightly betrays the viewer’s gaze” (Kissing stone), he strives to experience the world from the position of a being that is not himself. By dismantling the binary opposition between the subject and the object, he dreams of a world where everyone is connected equally, like “transparent ghosts” (Jokes and Commands). Therefore, "Set" realizes relationships that can only be achieved by those who cannot be defined—relationships that are free of any trace of discrimination or hierarchy. It is filled with a love of “us”, which can only be fully formed by breaking out of the confines of “I”. [Reference: YES24]   About the author Seon-oh Kim   Born in 1992 in Seoul. Although he doesn't have many things he likes, the poet confidently says that he loves two things: the endlessly varied and renewed piano and poetry. He has authored the poetry collections “Night Soccer” and “Set”, as well as the essay collection “Rubato for the Unknown”. [Reference: YES24]