Kyoungsun Lim is a Seoul-based novelist and essayist who made her literary debut in 2005 after twelve years in the corporate marketing world. She was born in Seoul and raised in Japan, the United States, Portugal, and Brazil from the age of five to seventeen, following her diplomat parents.
After leaving her corporate career due to health reasons, she turned to writing, beginning as a newspaper and magazine columnist before expanding into essays and fiction. Over the past 20 years, Lim has published more than 20 books and many of her books have become bestsellers in Korea.