Awards

Kim Suyeong Literary Award (1997)
Sowol Poetry Award (2000)
Contemporary Poetry Award (2000)
Korea Culture and Arts Foundation 'This Year's' Art Prize (2004)
Midang Literature Award (2006)
Daesan Literature Award (2008)
Lucien Stryk Translation Prize (2012, Don Mee Choi's translation)
Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019)
Korea Culture & Art Prize (2019)
Lucien Stryk Translation Prize (2019, Don Mee Choi's translation)
Griffin Poetry Prize (2019)
Cikada Prize (2021, Sweden)
Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022)
U.K. Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022)
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2023)
National Book Critics Circle for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize (2023, Translator. Don Mee Choi, shortlist)
The Gulf Coast Prize in Translation (2024, Cindy Juyoung Ok's translation)
Ossolineum Prize for Poetic Translation (2024, Polish Translator. Lynn Suh, finalist)
Academy of Arts and Sciences Member : Humanities and Arts (IHM)(2025)