Cho Sun-mie, born in Seoul, earned her undergraduate degree, with a double major in International Relations and Aesthetics, and Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Seoul National University. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Hongik University. She has served as Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo; president of the Association of Art History; director of the Sungkyunkwan University Museum; and a member the Cultural Heritage Committee of the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. She is currently a professor at the College of Art, Sungkyunkwan University. She has published a number of books, including her original works and translations, as well as academic papers. They include Study of Korean Portraits (Hanguk chosanghwa yeongu, Youlhwadang, 1983), Painters and Self-portraits (Hwaga-wa jahwasang, Yekyung, 1995), Study of Portraits ― Portraits and Theories of Portraiture (Chosanghwa yeongu ― Chosanghwa-wa Chosanghwaron, Munye Publishing Co., 2007), Painting and Painters ― From Giotto to Chagall by Lionello Venturi (Hyeongseol Publishing Co., 1984), History of Art by Jean A. Vincent (Ewha Womans University Press, 1990), Aesthetics in the Orient by Tomonobu Imamich (Dahal Media, 2005); and academic papers “Yu Jong-yol [Yanagi Muneyoshi]’s View of Korean Art” (1988), “A Study on Tadashi Sekino” (2005), and “A Study of the Illustrated Scenes from the Life of Sage Confucius [Kongji shengji tu]” (2009) and many others.
Lee Kyong-hee holds a degree in English from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She has had a long career as a journalist for English-language newspapers in Korea, starting as a cultural reporter for The Korea Times and later as managing editor and editor-in-chief of The Korea Herald. She is currently editor of the Korea Focus news magazine, and various arts and culture publications. She has authored two books, Korean Culture: Legacies and Lore (1993) and World Heritage in Korea (1998), and a number of translations, including Royal Costumes of the Late Joseon Period (1986), Royal Ancestral Shrine of the Joseon Dynasty (1998), Korean Travel Literature (2006), Buddhism: Religion in Korea (2007), and Women in Korean History (2008).