Bonnie Tilland, PhD, is a sociocultural anthropologist of South Korea and transnational East Asia. She teaches at Leiden University in the Netherlands and was an associate professor of East Asian studies and anthropology at Yonsei University in South Korea. Her main research specialties are gender and family, media and popular culture, and education and language politics.

Hyeyoung Woo, PhD, is a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Portland State University. Her research centers on status attainment, such as education, work, and family, and its associations to health and well-being over the life course, concerning people in the United States as well as those in Korea.

Michele Ross is a freelance writer specialising in wellness and culture. She studies and writes about Korean topics at large, ranging from K-pop and entertainment to K-beauty, food, gender, and travel.