translations by Suphil Lee Park
Advent of April
A Layered Poem
Passing by an Old Fortress
Kim Wooncho (김운초 / 金雲楚) (1804–1859) was a courtesan poet of the late Joseon dynasty. While she was and is still best known for her sentimental love poems, her poem “In Response to Seolpah’s Poem” is one of the very few Korean poems of the dynasty that seems to acknowledge female friendship.