Born in 1957 in the midst of a Confucian family in the coastal town of Kang Reng, left for college to become a farmer. After two years of learning and exhausted by agricultural farm work techniques, decides to return to school to study business at the University of Kang Won. His first stories in 1988 and earned him a literary prize for young talents. In his prolific, versatile and award-winning career as a novelist stand more recently titles like Innocence (2000), Twenty and forty-six (2004) and Model (2004).