B.J. Jones earned his B.A. from Seoul National University in Korea, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Iowa State University in the United States. He taught as a teacher in the TAMA elementary school in the U.S.A., a professor at Ewha Women’s University and is currently the principal of Ewha Elementary School in Seoul, Korea. He has authored several dictionaries including “English-Korean Practical Conversation Dictionary,” “Korean Phrase Book for Travelers,” “Mini Dictionary of English-Korean, Korean-English: Romanized,” and “Standard English-Korean & Korean-English Dictionary for Foreigners: Romanized, (Comb. vol.).”