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.

Born in Pohang in 1983, Lee Soyounstudied creative writing at Chung-Ang University. Her writing career began in2014 when she won the Korea Economic Daily Spring Literary Contest with herpoem “The Origin of Brain Prenatal Education.” She is the author of the poetrycollection I Need a Girl Who Will Die Slowly. In 2020, she received thehighest number of votes in the poetry category of ‘The Faces of KoreanLiterature’ survey. Lee is a member of the creative collective Kyeom.

Lee Seo Su made her literary debut in 2014 when her short story “Relief, Vintage, or Salvation” won the Dong-A Ilbo New Writer’s Contest. She received the 6th Hwangsanbeol Youth Literature Award for the full-length novel Your 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds, and the 22nd Lee Hyoseok Literary Award for the short story “The Age of Mizo.” She is the author of the full-length novel Help Me Sister.

Kim Yang-shik (1931-) is a South Korean poet. She made her literary debut in 1969 when her poem “Pulkkochi doeeo pullipi doeeo” (풀꽃이 되어 풀잎이 되어 To Be a Flower, a Blade of Grass) was published in the magazine Wolgan Munhak. Her first poetry collection Jeongeuphusa (정읍후사 Poems on Jeongeup) was published in 1971. Kim’s poems were initially themed around the love and sorrow of Korean women but later on, they came to be more influenced by Indian philosophy.

Jeong Bi-seok (1911-1991) was a South Korean novelist. He debuted in 1935 when his work Yeoja (여자 Woman) was published in the daily Maeil Shinbo. His works enjoyed popularity for mainly portraying tension between the sexes or down-to-earth humanitarianism.•Novel Jayubuin (자유부인 Madam Liberty) (1954)•Novel Sonja byeongbeop (소설 손자병법 Sun Tzu’s Art of War) (1983)

Yoo Juhyun (1921 – 1982) is a South Korean novelist. He is known to be a prolific writer, having written 26 full-length novels and over 100 novellas and short stories.[1] His early works were mostly devoted to social issues, but the majority of his works since the 1960s are historical novels. Unlike conventional historical novels that focus on entertainment, his novels feature profound historical perspectives.[2] His representative work Joseonchongdokbu (조선총독부 Joseon Government-General) (1964–1967) has received critical attention for its realistic depiction of the Korean people’s sufferings during the 36 years of Japanese colonial rule.

Kim Seong-han (1919-2010) was a South Korean novelist. He debuted in 1950 when his short story “Mumyeongno” (무명로 Lightless Road) won a contest hosted by the daily Seoul sinmun. Through his work, Kim sought to criticize the problems of human society that were beyond time, and from the 1960s, he focused on fictionalizing Korean history. Along with Son Chang-sop and Chang Yong-hak, he was regarded as a writer who led the Korean literary scene in the 1950s. •Short story collection Amyahaeng (암야행) (1951) •Short story “Ohbungan” (오 분 간 In Five Minutes) (1957) •Novel Yi Seong-gye (이성계 Yi Seong-gye) (1979)

Kim Dong-in (1900–1951) was a Korean writer.

Kim Sowol (1902–1934) was a Korean language poet famous for his contributions to early modern poetry.