Ha Sangwook

Hand-drawn pictures of the author are also found in the collection. Si ingneun bam: Si bam (시 읽는 밤 :  시 밤, Night of Reading Poems, 2015) received favorable reviews as it is written about love with a sense of humor, and easily relatable to many. Eoseolpeun wirobatgi : Siro (어설픈 위로받기 : 시로/ Lame Comfort : by Poetry, 2018) is known as a collection of poetry comforting those who are tired of work, relationships, and life.

Ha has many nicknames, such as “empathy poet”, “sense machine”, “si (poetry)-pop singer”, not to mention the most well-known “Anipang poet”. He calls himself “sipari”, an acronym meaning a person who sells poems. He introduces himself as a singer song-writer who writes songs with poems out of superfluousness, and he names his music genre “si (poetry)-pop”. He also released his single album “Hoesaneun gayaji (회사는 가야지/ But You’ve Gotta Go to Work)” in 2014.

In his collection of poetry Seoul Si 1 & 2 (2013), Ha gave titles to his poems in the form of “from XX”, proving that his poems were about life, based on his own experiences. In the collection, he wrote short poems expressing everyday life, disregarding age, values, religion, regions so that anyone can read and enjoy.

Ha self-published an e-book poetry collection Seoul Si that was downloaded 30,000 times and owned by more than 100,000 readers in ten days. Seoul Si 1 and 2 were published in print in 2003 and became bestsellers. He was also a judge on a Twitter poetry writing competition. His poems have appeared on cigarette packs and textbooks.

Ha Sangwook (born 1981) is a South Korean poet. He writes short poems based on daily lives. He calls himself "Sipari", an acronym meaning a person who sells poems. He published the bestseller poetry collection Seoul Si (서울 시, Seoul Poetry) in 2013.

Ha was born in Seoul in 1981. He graduated from Konkuk University with a degree in Communication Design in 2009. He started working for Ridibooks, an e-book distribution company, and began posting his poems on Facebook in 2012. He sent out his poems through group emails, and received advice to publish them as an e-book.