The younger generation who are crazy about poetry...Because I look like "Short Platform"?

[Anchor]
Many people think poetry is too literary and difficult to match the younger generation, right?

However, as young people have recently enjoyed collecting poetry, it is even said that it is the second heyday of poetry since the 1980s and 1990s.

Reporter Park Soon-pyo covered why the younger generation is crazy about poetry.

[Reporter]
It's a poetry creation club at a cyber university.

After writing and presenting one or two poems a month, they exchange evaluations with their supervisors.

In the past, middle-aged students were active in city club activities, but young people's interest has grown these days.

[Yoon Eun-jin / Department of Literature Creation, Seoul Digital University: It's actually hard for people to read long texts these days, starting with simple pitches or puns. As a result, everyone saw short, funny, and witty things, so I got into poetry.] The young people's interest in

is also affecting the publishing market.

In fact, the sale of poetry at one large bookstore has increased by nearly 20% from last year, and unlike other books, readers in their 20s and 30s are leading the purchase of poetry.

In another online bookstore, the number of poems sold to teenage readers more than doubled from last year.

The ARS service, which was arranged by a publisher to listen to a poem, was so popular among young people that nearly 300,000 calls were received.

[Kang Yoo-jung / Editorial Director of Munhakdongne: Only a part of the novel can be read out, but since the poem can be read out in full, I think that's one of the reasons why the response was good.]It is clear that poetry, which can be read in a short time by young people familiar with

{쇼}'Shortform', is the most familiar genre of literature.

It's short, so it's easy to move and use, and it's easy to post pictures, so it fits with the 'Philsa' and 'Text Hip' craze.

Even relatively cheap books can't be ignored.

[Lee Jae-moo/Professor of Literature Creation at Seoul Digital University: The emotions, images, and symbolic expressions preferred by the younger generation are especially included in poetry, so I think they enjoy looking for what they want to express in poetry.]

However, if you consume poetry like self-flaunting just because it is short and cheap, this phenomenon may not last long and may be neglected by good poetry.

Eventually, young people's interest in poetry can't go back in time to the 80s and 90s, when a million books of poetry were sold, but at least the publishing world hopes it will lead to a literary foundation where good poetry is valued.

I'm Park Soonpyo of YTN.

Reporter: Lee Youngjae
Design: Jeon Wirin