Dennis P. Halpin, served as senior professional staff for Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Henry Hyde and prepared materials for the first “comfort women” resolution to be marked up by a Congressional Committee in September 2006.

Jung-Sil (Julie) Lee is an art historian, curator, and adjunct Professor at the George Washington University and Maryland Institute College of Art. Her Ph.D. in Art History is from the University of Maryland. She has served as the president of the non-profit organization, the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc. (WCCW) for the past […]

Education for International Understanding (EIU) is a key initiative by UNESCO that addresses many of the global challenges facing today’s world. Its goal is to promote a Culture of Peace by fostering greater understanding and cooperation among people from different backgrounds. To achieve this, EIU supports educational programs focused on multicultural understanding, peace, human rights, […]

Yu Jin majored in visual design and studied illustration in graduate school. He creates children’s books as an illustrator. Following the process mentored at the 2010 Bologna Picture Book Workshop for the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy by Sangsang Madang Academy, Yu created the book We Are Like Each Other.

Chairman of The Hulbert Memorial Society Former Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase In 1999, during his tenure as Managing Director and Country Manager of Chase Manhattan Bank, Korea—a predecessor of JPMorgan Chase—DongJin Kim, along with esteemed colleagues, founded The Hulbert Memorial Society. Under his visionary leadership, the Society has spearheaded numerous initiatives to preserve and […]

Born in Seoul in 1936, Joungwon Kim graduated from Kyunggi High School before embarking on a journey to the United States, becoming the first Korean student admitted to Phillips Exeter Academy. While at Harvard University, he made history as the first Korean student body president and garnered national recognition when he penned a rebuttal to […]

Founded in 2007, Recipe Factory specializes in menu development and cookbook publishing. It publishes highly collectible cookbooks for readers on home cooking, baking, and healthy cooking. Every recipe from the Recipe Factory is developed and thoroughly tested by the in-house expert team to ensure that it is accurate, practical, and successful, no matter who is […]

Han Tae-hee was born in 1962 in Seoul. He graduated from the Department of Applied Arts at Seoul Institute of the Arts, after which he has been illustrating children’s books.  He held the first solo exhibition, “A Journey into Fairy Tales,” in 1998. He longs for strange new worlds, and a beautiful world in which […]

Chung is a translator of children’s literature.  She studied translation at Ewha Women’s University GSTI and worked for a publishing agency introducing Korean children’s books around the world. She has translated many Korean children’s books into English and been in a doctoral program in translation studies.

Choi Eun-ju studied Art Education at Hongik University Education Graduate School and illustrates children’s picture books. Her first book was Urina, the Best Driver Ever!, and her second book was How was Gimbap Made?, which she illustrated to express the heartfelt desire of the mother pig’s hope to see her kids grow up well.

Chae In-seon was born in 1962 in Hambaek, Gangwon-do and attended school in Seoul. Chae graduated from Sungkyunkwan University as a French Language and Literature major.  She worked as an editor at a publishing company and later began to write children’s books. She has written many picture books including Urina, the Best Driver Ever!, How […]

Translator and Illustrator Lee Young-hee graduated from Kyungpook National University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Korean Language and Literature. She received her doctorate degree at Sookmyung Women’s University. She has been teaching Korean to Foreign learners since 1993. She won the Korea Times Korean Literature Translation Award for co-translation with Scott Dewar in the […]

Born in Seoul, Young-dahl Song studied at Seoul High School, Yonsei University, and the University of Georgia in the United States. He earned his Ph.D. in public administration at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. After teaching politics and administration at Yonsei University and East Carolina University for over thirty years as a professor, he […]

Elspet is the older sister of Elizabeth Keith. Elspet ran the New East publishing company in Tokyo for several years starting in 1915 with her husband, John Robertson Scott. In doing so, she came to understand the history and culture of Korea and Japan. When James S. Gale, a missionary, translated and published a Korean […]