New poetic forms in Ch'oe Nam Son poetry

In 1907 in Japan Ch 'oe Nam Son (1890-1957) began experimenting with series of poetic forms formerly unknown in Korean poetry. Seven of his early poems were published in the monthly journal of the Korean Academic Society, issued in Tokyo. In 1908 he edited a monthly magazine «Sonyon» where were published his famous poems in new style «sinsi». Ch'oes poetic progress from the traditional poetic forms to modern poetry ends with his free verse and prose poems, which appeared in Korean poetry for the first time.