Pukyong National University

"My poems are all sprouting from tragedy."
A review of <Pukyong CEO Happiness Humanities Concert> Lecture 74th, Professor Jeong Ho-seung

△ A poet Jeong Ho-seung delivers a 'happy tip'. ⓒPhoto by Lee Sung-jae

The last lecture (74th) of the Pukyong CEO Happiness Humanities Concert, Pukyong National University's Humanities Lecture Program, was held at the Somin Hall on the 2nd floor of the Pukyong National University's Mirae building on November 28 at 7 am.

The poet Jeong Ho-seung, who was a lecturer with a crowd of 100, gathered for an hour and a half under the title of 'A Word That Supported My Life'.

"I write it down in my notebook every time I meet 'precious words' in people's conversations and readings," he told the audience one by one.

Jeong Ho-seong first introduced his mother's words. That sentence is 'That's all right, Do it again'.

“I feel like I'm going to sit down when it's hard, but I'm reminded of my mother's words and try again without giving up. My mother's words are the support and the fence of my life.”
And he read one of his poems.

The person I love

-Jeong Ho-seung

I do not love people without shade
I do not love people who do not love shade
I love someone who has become the shade of a tree
Sunlight must be shaded and sunny
Sitting in the shade of a tree
Looking at the sunshine through the leaves
How beautiful is the world.

I do not love someone without tears
I do not love someone who does not love tears
I love someone who has fallen into tears
Joy is not joy without tears
There is no love without tears.
Sitting in the shade of a tree
The person who wipes the tears of others
How quiet beauty

"'Shade' or 'tear' in this poem means 'pain', he said. "I wrote this poem in the thought that the most deeply understood part of life is pain, and that love should be loved."

He showed a picture of the Saint-Denis church in France, telling the story of Denis, who was sent to Paris in circa 250 AD.

Denis is beheaded at Montmartre Hill in the face of pagan protesters. Saint Denis, however, is said to have received a marvelous power from an angel and showed a miracle of walking with his hand cut under his head.

Mr.Jeong said, “We live our lives with our severed heads. How painful is it? There is no life without pain. Pain is the most essential thing in our lives.”

What do you do with this pain? He introduced the quotation of American writer Tony Robins. 'Winter can come to your life. But some people freeze and die, and some ski.'

He writes this sentence on a note and puts it on his notebook and reads it from time to time. He said, “You should not look toward despair in pain. Let us all look forward to hope without giving up.”

He then said that all his poems sprouted from tragedy. Saying that you can't write a poem without the pain of tragedy! “I realized that tragedy was a blessing. Let us all find the blessings hidden in the tragedy”, he said.

He called himself a fatalist. “Life flowed regardless of my will,” he said. “So I do not set the direction of destiny. I don't go in the direction, so I'm in pain from the moment I set the direction."

Japanese monk Ikyu’s quotation also appeared. 'Do not worry. Somehow it goes.' He said, “I also wrote it on a note and put it on the desk. When things are not working well, it gives a great comfort.”

“There is nothing I can do with my strength. So somehow, I leave it to the flow.”

"It's a pearl called the pearl that's the pearl clam that keeps enveloping things that have come into my body," and said, “I try to understand and embrace the pain that came into me for a better life.”

'Set a goal, and it will lead me!'

Mr.Jeong said, “When I become 70, I set a goal to make a new collection. The goal led me to get married in January next year. ”

For whales

-Jeong Ho-seung

If there are no whales in the blue sea
it's not a blue sea.
You're not a young man
unless you have a blue whale
in your heart.

Those who do not yet know
that the blue sea is blue for whales
do not yet know love.

Whales sometimes soar above the horizon
staring at the stars.
I sometimes look at the stars in the night sky
for the whales in my heart

Mr.Jeong, a poet who read this poem, suggested, "Let's look back at what whales are all raised in the blue sea of my life this morning."

How do you achieve the whale's dreams?

He introduced the words that monk Seong-cheol told him. 'To take a picture, take a thousand times.'

He said that when he interviewed monk Seong-cheol as a monthly reporter. “There is a person who writes poetry as a talent, and I think it is by effort. Rewrite and rewrite to complete a poem. I think hard work is talent.”

'Commemorate failure' is his sentence, he introduced. “Every year, December 31, I get stuck in my room and think about what I failed during the year. That is my failure day. There is a clue to success in failure."

To the sun

-Jeong Ho-seung

Thank you for seeing the dust early in the morning.
Now i
thank you for letting me know that I am just dust.
Thank you for shining me
who became dust,
all day long.

'Love my weakest part!' From childhood to college, his nickname was Acorn. Because of his appearance.

“You have to love your weaknesses. People do not love the weak part of the other person. "We use it more as an attack weapon." he said.

"I tried to love my nickname, imagining a grain of acorn growing into beautiful oak trees," he said. Thus he would have become a large tree of Korean paragraphs. <Pukyong Today>


△ The panorama view of Pukyong CEO Happiness Humanities Concert.

△ After the event, attendees, including Kim Young-seup, are taking pictures of the group.