Kim Seong-kon, PhD, is a professor emeritus at Seoul National University and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. He is an academic, literary critic, film critic, columnist, editor, and writer.

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

Evan E. Lambert is a journalist, travel writer, essayist, and short fiction writer with bylines at Thought Catalog, Business Insider, Mic, People, Queerty, BuzzFeed, Going, The Discoverer, and many more. You can check out his other work at https://evanlambert.journoportfolio.com/.