number of awards including the Shin Seokjung Literary Award, the Jeong Jiyong Literary Award, the grand prize at the Yoon Dongju Literary Awards, and the Baekseok Literary Award. In 2006, he was listed among the 100 people who made the world a better place. Do served as Minister of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism from June 2017 to April 2019. As a poet who understands nature like a human being and human beings like nature, Do delivers profound and clear insights through his poems and essays. Collections of poems written by Do Jonghwan include A Hollyhock You, Flowers Sway as They Bloom, and The Way to Haein. Other works created by Do include the children's poem collection Who's More Scared?, the children's story Hello, Tree and the picture book A Lullaby from Poet Do Jonghwan.