Ryoo Kisu (1924-2007) was a South Korean novelist who debuted through the Kyunghyang Daily News New Writer`s Contest 1968 with the short story “Horobaksa” (호로박사 “The Well-Aged Professor”). Ryoo wrote largely on the pain of national division between North and South Korea, and depicted the injustices of contemporary Korean society through a realistic lens. •Novel Jirisan saramdeul (지리산 사람들 The People of Jirisan Mountain) (1991) •Novel Ingangyoryang (인간교량 The Human Bridge) (1994) •Novel Jirisane pin kkocheun sideulji anneunda (지리산에 핀 꽃은 시들지 않는다 Flowers Blooming on Jirisan Mountain Never Wither) (1999) •Novel Ppalchisan (빨치산 Partisans) (2002)

Heo Gyun (許筠, 1569–1618) was a civil official, writer, thinker and reformer in the mid-Joseon period. He left a large body of writing opposing Korea’s medieval etiquette-based education and criticizing the social contradictions of his time. Heo met a tragic death by execution after being implicated in a case of treason.

Cho Sun-hee won the grand prize for the second Korea Fantasy Literary Award with her full-length novel Go-ri-gol. Her other full-length novels include The Wizard and the Laundress Friga (two books in the series) The Key of Adon (seven books in the series), There, the Fox Paw Prints, Blue Tomb in Street Number 404, To Carve the Moon and Dry the Clouds (two books in the series), The Salt Scale, and To Kill a Maegu, and her collection of stories include The Modern Story of Patjwi and The Modern Story of Arang. Cho has won the 2015 Korea Story Competition with Nine Faber’s Oaks Asked. The Salt Scale and Nine Faber’s Oaks Asked have been signed for movie rights, and are in the script development phase.

Choi Nanyoung majored in Creative Writing in both university and graduate school. She awarded in the 2022 Korea Content Awards with "I Came From Moulin Rouge," and awarded in the 2nd Kim Seung-ok Literature Award with the short story "Cry, Please," as well as awarded in the 1st Yeosun 10.19 Literature Award with "The day my father came." She was selected for the short story category of the Gozknock Entertainment's Metaverse Genre Novel Contest with "Wishing for Luck," and received the award in the short story category at the 6th Kyobo Bookstore Story Contest with "Quo Vadis." As published works, She have the book "Metaverse Genre Literature Award Works 2: Wishing for Luck," "Kyobo Bookstore Story Contest Short Story Award Works 2019," and the essay collection "Blah Blah Blah."

Park Sang-yeon (1972-) is a South Korean novelist. He also writes scripts and screenplays for TV drama series and films. He began his literary career in 1996 when he published his novel DMZ (DMZ DMZ) was published in the magazine World Literature. He mainly writes works that reinterpret and adapt historical materials to reality. Novel Seondeokyeowang (선덕여왕 Queen Seondeok of Silla) (2009) TV drama series Ppurigipeun namu (뿌리깊은 나무 Deep Rooted Tree) (2012)