Choi Young-mi

Choe Yeongmi (; born September 25, 1961) is a South Korean poet and novelist and one of the figureheads of the MeToo movement in Korea, most widely recognized for her poetry collection At Thirty, the Party Is Over.

Works in Korean Poetry collections At Thirty, the Party Is Over (, 1994) Treading on the Pedals of Dreams (, 1998) To the Pigs (, 2005) Life That Has Yet To Arrive (, 2009) Things Already Hot (, 2013) What Will Not Come Again (, 2019)

Novels Scars and Patterns (, 2005) The Garden of Bronze (, 2014)

Essay collections Melancholy of the Ages: Choe Yeongmi's European Diary

Translations "Francis Bacon in Conversation with Michel Archimbaud" (in The Cruel Hand of a Painter: Conversations with Francis Bacon) (, 1998) D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (1999)

Works in English in Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon and Choi Young-Mi (trans. James Kimbrell and Yu Jung-yul, 2002, Sarabande Books), shortlisted for the 2004 ALTA Prize in Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets (ed. Emily Jungmin Yoon, 2019, Tilted Axis Press)

Reception Several of Choe Yeongmi's poems have been included in high school textbooks, such as "In the Subway, II" , in Changbi Publishers' 2012 literature textbook; "Melancholy of the Ages - Cologne" , in Hakyeon Publishing's 2012 essay writing textbook; and "At Seon-un Temple" , in Jihak Publishing's 2014 literature textbook.

Many of her poems have been adapted into music. The album "Love Alone - Artpop & Classic" (1998), written by Lee Gunyong, director of the Seoul Metropolitan Opera, and sung by Jeon Kyungok, featured four songs with lyrics from Choe Yeongmi's poems: "At Seon-un Temple" , "Love Song for Adonis" , "Sad Café Song" , and "First Snow on Bukhansan" . "At Seon-un Temple" was also rearranged by Kim Daesung to be included in his and Kang Kwonsoon's 2007 compilation, "First Feeling" ; the poem was also performed by An Chihwan on his 2010 album "Today Is Good" .

Personal life Choe Yeongmi taught creative writing and poetry at Inha University in Incheon and Kangwon National University in Gangwon Province.

Several of Choe's essays about life, travel, and art have been published, including the collection Melancholy of the Ages: Choe Yeongmi's European Diary , "To You Who Will Peek into My Diary by Chance" , and "Getting Lost Is a Real Trip" . Choe is also a fan of football, and has published multiple essays about the sport, including an article about football in Korea in Die Tageszeitung special issue in May 2006 for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and "Ball Waits for No One" in 2011. She also served as a board member of the Korea Football Association's Football Love Sharing Foundation from 2012 to 2013.

In 2019 Choe established her own publishing house, Imi Books , through which she published her collection What Will Not Come Again.