Kim Hyeonjin studied screenwriting and narrative creation at the Korea National University of Arts. She started writing at 17 with the essay collection Do as You Please and spent the next 20 years completely falling in love with writing; she published several essay collections, including A Passionate Goodbye and When I Said I Wanted to Die, the Life Started to Make Jokes, and novels Tell Me, Why Did You Do that to Me and It’s Like XX but Still a Love Story. Kim worked various jobs and wrote all kinds of text for a living, including game and movie scripts and corporate promotions. After working as a vegetable juice deliverywoman for a while, she learned a bit about how the industry worked and almost overcame her alcoholism. She plans to continue writing for the next 20 years.

Kim Ha-gi (born 1958) is a modern South Korean writer and ex-political prisoner.

Mid-Joseon poet Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589) was also an outstanding painter and calligrapher. Though she was renowned for her poetry even in China and Japan, only 213 of her works survive today. A posthumous collection of her works is titled Nanseolheon jip (蘭雪軒集 Nanseolheon Anthology).