Aspects of hospitality in Kim Jong-sam’s poetry

This article aims to shed light on the aspects and characteristics of hospitality revealed in Kim Jong-sam’s poetry. Kim Jong-sam was a poet of the postwar generation who experienced the liberation and the Korean War, and he worked on his works amidst many difficulties in modern poetry. In his works spanning over 30 years, war and poverty were his neighbors. This paper attempted to highlight the aspects of the poetic subject who listened to and sympathized with the suffering of strangers and expressed it through language and gestures. In order to shed light on the aspects of hospitality revealed in Kim Jong-sam’s poetry, we focused on the technique of juxtaposition. We illuminated Kim Jong-sam’s method of hospitality, in which the receptive and transcendental perspectives on two contrasting objects acquire mutual relationships and expand existence to the level of solidarity. We examined the aspects of unfamiliarity and encounter, and the methods of hospitality in times of poverty. Looking at the aspects of hospitality expressed in his poetry is to get closer to Kim Jong-sam’s poetic aspiration to pursue a peaceful world. The work of unfolding the magnetic field of Kim Jong-sam’s poetry, which is about accepting and coexisting with strangers, is a work that shares the literary presentation and influence that preempts the public function of hospitality.