Gongju National University, Korea

Hyugjun Kwon is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at GongJu National University of Education in Gongju, Korea. He teaches undergraduate courses such as children's literature and literary criticism, and graduate courses including theory on children's literature and critiques of children's literature. His books include teaching materials for university students such as Understanding of Children's Literature, Literature Theory and Poetry Education, and Reading Education Theory and Methodology. He is studying modern children's fiction in Korea, and publishes papers and critiques in various magazines. He is a critic on children's literature and recently published The Children's Fiction I Read in the Classroom.

Seoul National University, Korea

Born in 1968 in the southern part of Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, Jang Jeung-Hee majored in Korean literature at the Busan National University. Since her debut in 1998 through Children's Literary Criticism, she has published a collection of fairy tales, and an academic book The Shape of Korean Modern Children's Literature. She completed her PhD with a “Study on Bangjunghwan’s Literature” at Korea University. She worked as an academic research professor at Kyunghee University. Since 2018, she has been working as an academic research professor in Seoul National University. Her main interests are Korean children's literature, children's art and Bang Jung-hwan's research.

Stanford University, California

Dafna Zur is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature, cinema, and popular culture. Her book, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea, traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. Her new project interrogates moral education in science and literary youth magazines in postwar North and South Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature, childhood in cinema, and Korean popular culture.