— Overview
The notes stay with that chapter — SNS, a mass literary form, and local contests — and they do not invent an official English title for the book.
— Contents and key concepts
A 2019 collection, and one chapter kept
The notes take up a 2019 prose collection by Kim Jong-hoe, published by Biche on 15 May that year, a book on the border of life and literature. The assignment was to choose ten pieces from across the volume; what is written out here is the chapter on dica-si.
No official English title is claimed for the book. The author, the press, the date, and this one chapter are named, and the rest of the volume is left for a later reading.
A coinage from 2004, camera and poem together
Dica-si, they write, blends “digital camera” and “poetry.” One photographs nature or an object, then sets a short text beside the image, so that picture and words become a single piece.
They date the term to the poet Lee Sang-ok in 2004, and they add that the form can now be found in school textbooks. The definition is kept practical: a camera, a few lines, one text.
SNS, everyday literature, and local contests
The form’s advance, they write, comes with SNS: a setting in which people already talk in real time. Dica-si is read as a literary genre of that digital everyday, widening poetry from language alone into a mixed art of image and words.
It aims, they add, both at a serious movement among poets and at a popular everyday literature, and many local governments now hold contests. The notes leave the subject there, before later tables, and before the other chapters of the book. The same Korean report, written out more fully, sits on CampusDown.
Sources
- Student notes on the dica-si chapter in Kim Jong-hoe’s 2019 prose collection from Biche.
Last updated 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
What is dica-si, as the notes define it?
A blend of “digital camera” and “poetry”: a photograph of nature or of an object, joined to a short text, so that image and words make one piece. They date the coinage to the poet Lee Sang-ok in 2004, and they note that the form now appears in school textbooks.
Why do they say the form has spread?
Because of SNS, they write: a new setting for talking in real time. Dica-si, in this reading, widens poetry from language alone into a mixed art of image and text, fitted to everyday online life.
How do they describe its public life?
It aims, they write, both at a serious poetic movement and at a popular everyday literature. Many local governments now hold dica-si contests. The notes stay with this chapter of Kim Jong-hoe’s 2019 collection; they do not invent an official English title for the book.
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