Kim Choyeop author biography, plus links to books by Kim Choyeop.

Kim Choyeop

Kim Cho-yeop has a master's degree in biochemistry from Pohang University of Science and Technology. When she burst onto the Korean literary scene, her short story "Lost on Premises" received immediate recognition at the 2017 Korean Science Fiction Awards. She is also the recipient of the Minumsa Writer of the Year Award and the Munhak Dongne Young Writer Award. Her first short story collection If We Can't Travel at the Speed of Light has sold over two hundred thousand copies in Korea alone. She is also the author of two more short story collections, The World I Just Left Behind and The Bookstore of Planetary Languages. Kim Cho-yeop's first novel, Greenhouse At the End of the Earth, became an instant bestseller in South Korea.

This biography was last updated on 04/28/2026.

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