From 2015, she served as a representative of the Vegetarian Peace Alliance for six years. In 2022, she founded Plant-based Peace World. As a representative of Plant-based Peace World, she is working to promote the value of plant-based food.

Han Bi-ya (1958~) is a South Korean essayist and travel writer. She first began writing essays about her experience of travelling to remote villages around the world. Her Baramui ttal (바람의 딸 Daughter of the Wind) series enjoyed widespread popularity. •Essay collection Baramui ttal georeoseo jigu se bakwi ban (바람의 딸 걸어서 지구 세 바퀴 반 Daughter of the Wind: Three and a Half Times Around the Globe on Foot) (1996) •Essay collection Jido bakkeuro haenggunhara (지도 밖으로 행군하라 Marching off the Map) (2005) •Essay collection Baramui ttal, uri ttange seoda (바람의 딸, 우리 땅에 서다 Daughter of the Wing: Standing on Motherland) (2006)

재미있는 이야기와 멋진 사람들의 세계에 다가가고 싶어 방송작가로 사회생활을 시작했고 [매거진 t], [아이즈] 등에서 10여 년간 대중문화 기자로 일했다. 언제나 재미있는 글을 쓰고 싶었지만 늘 뜻대로 되지는 않았고, 2015년 이후 일련의 사건들을 계기로 여성으로서 한국 대중문화를 어떻게 볼 것인지 고민하다가 『괜찮지 않습니다』, 『엄마는 되지 않기로 했습니다』 등을 썼다. 여성과 대중문화에 관한 글을 주로 쓴다 함께 쓴 책으로는 『을들의 당나귀 귀』와 『페미니즘 교실』, 『나의 복숭아』 등이 있다. 삶의 기본 상태가 느림과 미룸인 탓에 늘 마음이 바쁘지만, 천천히 계속 쓸 이야기를 찾고 있다.

Kim Hana majored in Korean literature at university and worked as a copywriter for many years. Born in Haeundae, Busan, Kim moved to Seoul at nineteen and has since experienced various forms of housing and living arrangements. Living together with Hwang Seonwu, she has simultaneously embraced both an unprecedented sense of stability as well as rough storms. These days, she lives as a person who reads, writes, listens, and speaks. She has written Your Ideas, My Ideas and The Golden Bell Sound.