with the help of his friends. But he resigned six months later because of pressure to follow Sōshi-kaimei. In 1942 he worked at customs in Andong. Later life and death After the restoration of Korean independence, he returned to his hometown, Chongju. He studied children's literature and was criticized by the literary world in North Korea. In June 1962, he became a shepherd in a collective farm in Samsu. In October 1962, he quit writing as the criticism of reactionism grew intense. South Koreans and Japanese long believed that Baek Seok had died on the farm in 1963. However, it was revealed that he lived until 1996. Work Baek Seok utilized not only Pyongan dialect and archaic words but also language from other provinces. He tried to preserve Korean rural culture and language by listing traditional plays and foods in his poems. To emphasize this, he used to set a narrator as a child. His poems are generally based on nostalgia for his home. In his poetry, home is described as a place that has no material affluence but embodies spiritual values. "The Folks in Fox-Lurking Village" (여우난 곬족, Yeounan goljok) shows such features. Deer: This is a collection of poems published on January 20, 1936. A total of 33 poems are divided into four parts in Deer. Part 1, "The Spirit of the Early Child", includes six, "Gazrangjip," "The Fox Nanjwa," "Hobang," "The Bonfire," "Goya," and "The Duckling Rabbit". The second part of "Water in Dolder-gu" contains nine, "Cho Dong-il," "Hadab," "Jumak," "Jeokgyeong," "Beauty" and "Out of Castle," and nine films including "Sanbi," "The Lonely Road," "Murru Bam," and "Noru.". The fourth part, "Beyond the National Allowance," contains nine episodes, including "The Story of the Day," "The Place called Ogeum Dung," "Jung Ju-seong," and "Tongyeong.". The upper copyright of the Deer is marked as "100 copies of the Poetry Deer Limited Edition at KRW 2". At the bottom of it, it says, "Copy and publisher Baekseok." "Me, Natasha and the White Donkey": A poem published in 1938 that transcends reality and sings of the will and desire for love. "Seohaeng Sicho": Baek Seok, who re-entered the Chosun Ilbo in 1939, announced it four times during his trip to his hometown of Pyeongan-do. Parwon (八院) : the a slow beginning, The Sidae (西行詩抄) the third a poet "parwon", The Sidae while traveling on the automobile for passengers of ‘young a