Korea, Republic Of (South)

Jo Kyung Ran 

Jo Kyung-Ran was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1969. She earned a degree in creative writing from the Seoul Institute of the Arts and has participated in the University of Iowa's renowned International…...

Hye-Young Pyun 

Pyun Hye-young was born in 1972 in Seoul, South Korea. She began publishing in 2000 and published three collections of stories, Aoi Garden, To the Kennels, and Evening Courtship, and the novel Ashes and…...

Ynhui Park 

Born in Korea in 1930, Ynhui Park (Pak In-Hŭi) spent many years studying and teaching abroad. After receiving a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne, in Paris, in 1964, he went on to take…...

Yoo Hui-Sok 

Yoo Hui-Sok is professor of English Education at Chonnam University, South Korea. Aside from Korean literature, his major field of research is nineteenth-century American and English literature. He has…...

Lee Si-Young 

Born in Kurye, South Jeolla Province, in 1949, Lee Si-Young (Yi Si-Yeong) began publishing poetry in 1969, beginning with his first volume Manweol (Full moon) in 1976. Ten years passed before a second, …...

Jungbin Yoon 

Jungbin Yoon is currently attending Oakwood Friends School in the Hudson Valley. She regularly translates a bilingual comic strip, Space Bunny, for the Korean Quarterly. She has an interest in portraiture,…...

Ra Heeduk 

Ra Heeduk is a poet and professor from South Korea. She received her PhD in Korean Language and Literature from Yonsei University in 2006. She has authored five books of poetry, most recently 사라진…...

Lee Gi-ho 

Lee Gi-ho was born in 1972 in Wonju, Gangwon Province. "Earnie" (1999) was his first published story, later included in his collection of stories, The Tale of Choe Sun-deok and Her Spirited-Filled Life…...

Kim Hye-soon 

Kim Hye-sun is one of South Korea's leading poets who made her literary debut in 1979. She is the recipient of the Kim Sooyoung Literary Award, the Hyundae Literary Award and the Sowol Poetry Award.…...

Hwang Ji-woo 

Hwang Ji-woo was born in 1952, during the Korean War, in the southern port town Haenam, and studied aesthetics and philosophy at college in the early 1970s, during which he was arrested and tortured for…...

Oh Jung-hee 

Oh Jung-hee has been publishing short stories for four decades and is widely recognized as a master of the form in Korea. She is the recipient of the Dongin Literature Award and the Yi Sang Prize for Short…...

Kim Hoon 

Kim Hoon began writing fiction in his fifties after a long career in journalism. His first novel, Song of the Sword, was published in 2001 and went on to become a great commercial and critical success.…...

Ha-yun Jung 

Ha-yun Jung is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, the Threepenny Review, the New York Times, and Best New American Voices 2001. She…...

Ko Un 

Born in 1933 in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, Ko Un is Korea's foremost living writer. After immense suffering during the Korean War, he became a Buddhist monk. His first poems were published in 1958,…...

Kim Young-ha 

Kim Young-ha has published three novels and numerous short stories and has a daily radio show. He teaches drama at the Korean National University of Arts and has received all of Korea's top literary…...

Hwang Sok-Yong 

Hwang Sok-Yong is one of South Korea's most renowned novelists. In 1993 Hwang was sentenced to seven years in prison for an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote exchange between the two Koreas,…...

Lee Seong-Bok 

Lee Seong-Bok has published five books of poetry since his first collection in 1980, including his latest, Ah! Mouthless Things (2003). He is the recipient of the Kim Sooyoung Literary Award and the Sowol…...

Yom Sang-seop 

Yom Sang-seop was born in 1897 in Seoul, and in 1912, he went to Japan to study. In 1919, he participated in an independence movement against the Japanese, for which he was jailed. He published his first…...

Yi Yŏn-ju 

Yi Yŏn-ju made her literary debut in a journal called World of Writers in 1991. The same year, Yi published her first book of poetry, A Night Market Where There Are Prostitutes (Maeŭmnyŏka ittnŭn pamŭi…...

Jung Mi Kyung 

Jung Mi-kyung is one of the most distinguished writers of modern Korean literature. She attended Ewha Womans University, and was the recipient of the prestigious Yi Sang Literary Award in 2006. She is…...

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