Gu Byeong-mo is known as an author that moves freely between the genre and techniques of fantasy and the style of traditional realism. Throughout her career, she has either depicted the fantasies of daily life or intermixed fantasy with daily life. Her light-hearted fantasy stories, in which magicians appear, people transform, and time runs backwards, also carry the shocking weight of issues like incest, child abuse, and filicide.

Shim Neoul is a South Korean science fiction novelist.

Kim Jay is a South Korean novelist. She made her literary debut in 2006 with the publication of Hunminjeongeum amsalsageon (훈민정음 암살사건 Hunminjeongeum Murder. She has been writing historical mystery novels and detective novels, such as Gyeongseong tamjeong Isang (경성 탐정 이상 Yi Sang, the Gyeongseong Detective) (2012), and she has drawn readers’ attention with new interpretations and imaginations of historical events and figures. She is a winner of the Korean Mystery Novel Grand Prize (2012). Novel Baekjegyeolsadan (백제결사단 Baekje Secret Society) (2007) Novel Gyeongseong tamjeong Isang (경성 탐정 이상 Yi Sang, the Gyeongseong Detective) (2012) Novel Bomnarui bada (봄날의 바다 Sea of Spring) (2016)

Chung Serang was born in 1984 in Seoul, Korea. She debuted in 2010 with the publication of the story “Dream, Dream, Dream” in the SF fantasy magazine Fantastique. Her writing usually depicts a world in which violence has become an everyday occurrence. Yet, the characters in her novels affirm individual good will and potential of ordinary people, and thus find hope in the end. Chung is the author of seven novels including As Close as This, and School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung and two short story collections: See You on the Rooftop and You Can Have My Voice. She has written the screenplay for School Nurse Files, an upcoming Netflix original series based on School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung. Chung is the recipient of the 2013 Changbi Prize in Fiction and the 2017 Hankook Ilbo Literary Award.

Park Eun-woo gained significant attention from readers with his novels Jeonjaengui Neup (The Swamp of Wars) and Myeongnyang (The Battle of Myeongnyang). He received an excellence award in the KOCCA Korea Story Contest for Cheonggyesanjangui Jaepan (The Trial at a Hut in Cheonggyesan Mountain), which was published in French and became the first Korean novel to be optioned for a TV series by a major American production company. Cheonggyesanjangui Jaepan (The Trial at a Hut in Cheonggyesan Mountain) was acclaimed by Lindsay Goffman, a producer of the American adaptation of The Good Doctor, as a very timely story addressing the social class inequality and corruption and a work with numerous compelling elements with a dense structure and a huge twist.