Oh Yoon, the eldest son of the novelist Young-soo Oh, is known as one of the representative Minjung artists and for his unique artistic style. Oh’s woodcut prints are comprised of the honesty of lines, abstract planes, and formal compositions, dynamically expressing scenes of labour and ordinary daily lives. We can find widely shared emotions and sensibilities in his works. A Study for Labor in the Dawn 1984 explored people’s cognition and inner world by showing the back of a person and feelings of emptiness; Mt. Jiri series from the late 1970s and the early 1980s visualise the transcendental; Gong 2 1985, Dance 1 1984, and The Song of the Sword 1985 evoke joys of dance. In particular, the human body appears repetitively in his works as a communicative language and a trace of life. It mediates condensed internal energy and emotions with the community. While pursuing critical ‘realism’ on the one hand, Oh was interested in ‘mysticism’ including shamanism, on the other. In order to express han (deep sorrow), he focused on the amusement of conviviality through which people could unravel deep emotions. Oh actively embraced these opposite forces in his artwork, thereby recovering and expanding the communicative potential of art which had been reduced or eliminated by the modernist worldview.