Joo Young-ha is a South Korean novelist who debuted in 2019 by winning a web novel contest hosted by Dasan Books with the novel Siganui gyedan (시간의 계단 Stairs of Time). Joo’s works include Siganui gyedan, Haengbokbaeteul (행복배틀 Happiness Battle), and Konggaru susadan (콩가루 수사단 The Messed-up Investigation Team).

The writer Kim Rae-im, while majoring in creative writing at university, made her debut as a playwright by winning the Daesan University Literary Award in the playwriting category.

The author Lee Doo-on made her literary debut with Sister in 2016. She has also published the full-length novel Burning Heart. She won the excellence award in the “Kyobo Bookstore Story Contest” in 2017.

She decided to become a drama writer and began by winning an entry prize in the Dongseo Literary Award for essays at the age of twenty. She also received several awards in various competitions, including an excellence prize in the Kyobo Bookstore Story Competition. Later, she won a competition for case thrillers and published The Brash Psychopath.

Lee Miye was born in Busan in 1990.After graduating from the Pusan National University School of Materials Scienceand Engineering, she worked as a semiconductor engineer at Samsung Electronics.Her debut novel DallerGut Dream Department Store—published throughcrowdfunding in 2020—has drawn enthusiastic responses and favorable reviews.