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 children and grown-ups can live together, and works to create stories about such worlds. He has written many books including Beautiful shapes and Patterns, Daebyeolwang and Sobyeolhwang, A Grandpa Who Regains the Spring, Temple Seonwun of Mount Dosol, Fireworks Pang Pang, Solmi’s Journey unto the Night Sky, Palm Amusement Park, Palm Zoo, Robot Friend, and Whistle, Whistle.