The organizers reserve the right to change.
15-18 May 2025 Palace of Culture and Science, plac Defilad and Museum of Modern Art
Międzynarodowe Targi Książki w Warszawie odbędą się w tym roku od 23 do 26 maja w Pałacu Kultury i Nauki i na placu Defilad, a w roli Gościa Honorowego zaprezentują się Włochy.
Meet the authors, translators, experts and artists - who will take part in the rich and varied program of the Republic of Korea - Guest of Honour at the Warsaw International Book Fair 2025!
Authors
Park Sangyoung was born in 1988 and studied French at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He worked as a magazine editor, copywriter, and consultant before debuting as a novelist. The title story of his bestselling short story collection, The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta was one of Words Without Borders’ most read pieces ever. He was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 with the novel Love in the Big city.
Polish editions of books:
- Miłość w wielkim mieście (Love in the Big City), Tajfuny 2025
Chung Bora translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean and writes generally unrealistic stories. Among her works, Cursed Bunny, a collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and was a finalist for National Book Awards in 2023, and another collection Your Utopia is nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2025.
Polish editions of books:
- Przeklęty królik (Cursed Bunny), Tajfuny 2023
- Sny umarłych (Dead Men’s Dreams), Kwiaty Orientu 2023
- Rozkład północy (Midnight Timetable), Kwiaty Orientu 2024
- Poddajcie się, Ziemianie! (Surrender, Earthlings), Kwiaty Orientu 2025
Jeon Heyjin is a South Korean author primarily interested in SF, horror, history of women, discrimination and marginalized.
She is an author of Women, become Ghost and Goddess and many other novels and stories. She has also written a children’s book titled Marie Curie from My Class, about the Polish scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
In 2007, she won the Daewon CI 1st Issue Novels Contest with her debut light novel. In 2019, she also won a writing contest held by China’s Science Fiction World.
Polish editions of books:
- Duchy i boginie. Kobiety w koreańskich wierzeniach (Women, become Ghost and Goddess), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego 2025
Kim Boyoung is a South Korean author best known for her science fiction works.
In 2004, she won the inaugural Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Award with her novella The Experience of Touch. She has also received awards at the annual South Korean SF Novel Award three times. In 2021, her short story collection On the Origin of Species and Other Stories was longlisted for the National Book Awards.
Additionally, she served as a consultant for director Bong Joon-ho’s film Snowpiercer.
Polish editions of books:
- Gwiezdna Odyseja (Stellar Odyssey), Kwiaty Orientu 2025
Dr. Victor Cha is president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also the distinguished university professor and professor of government at Georgetown University. Previously, Dr. Cha served on the Defense Policy Board as an advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council (NSC) as director for Asian Affairs. He was also the Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing. During his tenure at the National Security Council (NSC), he received two Outstanding Service Commendations. Dr. Cha received his PhD, MIA, and BA degree from Columbia University and a BA Honors from Oxford University.
Polish editions of books:
- Korea. Nowa historia Południa i Północy (Korea: A New History of South & North), co-authored with Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Copernicus Center Press 2024
Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance. He is also Adjunct Fellow (Non-Resident) with the Korea Chair at CSIS, Scientific Council member at Elcano Royal Institute, Steering Committee Member at CSCAP EU, Advisory Committee Member at Jeju Forum and Advisory Committee Member at the Reset Korea Campaign of JoongAng Ilbo.
Polish editions of books:
- Korea. Nowa historia Południa i Północy (Korea: A New History of South & North), co-authored with Victor Cha, Copernicus Center Press 2024
Storyteller, based in Seoul (Korea). Referred to as an all-around storyteller, Kim HoYeon has had multiple jobs, including novelist, screenwriter, and comic story writer.
He made his debut as a novelist with Mangwon-dong Brothers, which won the Excellence Award at the 9th Segye Literary Prize (Segye Ilbo) in 2013.
His representative novel series, The Second Chance Convenience Store (Nietuzinkowy sklep całodobowy), has sold over 1.7 million copies in Korea and has been published in 27 countries. It has won several awards, including the Yes24 Book of the Year, Aladin Book of the Year, and Millie Audiobook of the Year. In Taiwan, it ranked No. 1 in the translated fiction category for 3 consecutive years and led to him being selected as the 2023 Author of the Year (Eslite). The Japanese edition won 3rd place in the Foreign Fiction category of the 2024 Japan Booksellers’ Award (Honya Taisho), one of Japan’s most prestigious literary prizes.
His latest work, My Don Quixote, tells the story of people who search for dreams, pursue them, and ultimately embody them. The novel was awarded the 2024 Booksellers’ Award for Novel of the Year.
To date, he has published seven novels and three non-fiction books.
NOVELS: My Don Quixote (2024), The Second Chance Convenience Store 2 (2022), The Second Chance Convenience Store (2021), FAUSTER (2019), Ghost Writers (2017), Love and Rivals (2015), Mangwon-Dong Brothers (2013)
ESSAY: Searching for My Don Quixote (2025), Kim HoYeon’s Workroom (2023), I WRITE IT EVERYDAY, REWRITE IT, AND WRITE IT TO THE END (2020)
SCENARIO: The Fortress (2018) – Planning, Heartbreak Hotel (2015), Double Agent (2003)
Polish editions of books:
- Nietuzinkowy sklep całodobowy (The Second Chance Convenience Store), Znak 2024
- Jeszcze bardziej nietuzinkowy sklep całodobowy (The Second Chance Convenience Store 2), Znak 2025
Yeon Somin is a talented Korean author. She has received multiple accolades, including the prestigious Korea New Writer’s Award in 2022 for her debut work Lazy Kinko. She is an active contributor to the Brunch writing community. She has worked as a freelance television writer for major Korean networks including SBS, MBC and YTN. During her free time, she finds solace in the art of pottery.
Polish editions of books:
- Uzdrawiająca moc ceramiki (The Healing Season of Pottery), Sonia Draga 2024
Shin Kyungsook is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Dong-in Literature Prize, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and many others, including France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu. Shin is the author of multiple books, including The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness, I’ll Be Right There, The Court Dancer, Violets, I Went to See My Father, On the Eve of Goodbye, and the New York Times-bestselling Please Look After Mom, which has been published in over forty countries. Violets was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize for 2023.
Polish editions of books:
- Dworska tancerka (The Court Dancer), Kwiaty Orientu 2020
- Będę tam (I’ll Be Right There), Kwiaty Orientu 2021
- Zaopiekuj się moją mamą (Please Look After Mom), Kwiaty Orientu 2021
- Fiołki (Violets), Kwiaty Orientu 2023
- Z wizytą u ojca (I Went to See My Father), Kwiaty Orientu 2025
Yun Jungeun is a South Korean author of such books as: Marigold Mind Laundry or Marigold Mind Photo Studio. She hosts the podcast The Path of Books with Jungeun Yun. In 2012 she received a “Scent of Life East-West Literature Award” for fiction.
Polish editions of books:
- Pralnia serc Marigold (Marigold Mind Laundry), Wydawnictwo Mova 2024
Experts
- Assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Korean Studies
- Author of several articles and books on Korean literature and theatre
- Translator of The Court Dancer by Shin Kyungsook and Child’s Bone by Yi Sang
- Translator of Korean literature and plays (Lee Kangbaek, Ch’oe Inhun, Yi Sang, Shin Kyungsook, Yi Hosok, Choi Jinyoung)
- Recipient of multiple scholarships from the Korea Foundation, the Korean Foundation for Literature and Arts, and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea (Korea University, Yonsei University)
- Doctor of Humanities in the field of linguistics
- Assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Korean Studies
- Author of Korean language learning books (Koreański w obrazkach, Czas na koreański, Koreański nie gryzie, Koreański. Krótkie historie)
- Co-translator of: Vegetarian by Han Kang, The structure of Korean consciousness Lee Gyutae, The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Lee Miye, The Law of Lines by Pyun Hyeyoung and Invincible by Stanisław Lem (Korean)
- Master’s degree in Korean Philology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- Author of Korean language learning book Koreański nie gryzie
- Co-translator of: Struktura świadomości Koreańczyków by Lee Gyutae, The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Lee Miye, The Law of Lines by Pyun Hyeyoung, and Invincible by Stanisław Lem (Korean)
- Samsung R&D Institute Poland, Language Intelligence Team
- Lecturer at the SWPS University, Department of Asian Studies
- Graduate of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Korea, with an MA in Polish history
- Assistant lecturer at the Department of Korea, Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, since 2018
- In February 2023, defended a PhD thesis in the humanities in the discipline of cultural and religious studies (UJ)
- PhD in Humanities (Literary Studies), graduate of Korean Studies at the University of Warsaw
- Studied at Yonsei University and Kyung Hee University in Seoul with the support of the Korea Foundation and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea.
- Since 2011, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
- Author of A Day in the Life of Kubo, the Novelist. A Study on the Identity of a Korean Intellectual. (2013)
- Translator of all works by Han Kang published in Poland
- Assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Humanities
- Head of the Centre for Poland-Korea Cooperation at the University of Silesia in Katowice
- Co-author of several publications on linguistic politeness in Polish and Korean
- Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Silesia in Katowice
- B.A. in Polish Philology, and M.A. in International Polish Studies from the University of Silesia in Katowice
- Graduate of Korean Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- Korean language lector
- Translator of works including Tube by Sohn Wonpyung, Midnight Timetable and The Dreams of the Dead by Bora Chung, and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Boreum
- Graduate of Korean Studies and English Philology at the University of Warsaw
- Lecturer and Assistant Professor
- Author of numerous academic and popular works
- Translator of Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-Sook, Seven Years of Darkness by Jeong You Jeong, and Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
Performers
- M.A. in Pansori, and Ph.D. candidate in Pansori from Seoul National Univeristy Graduate School of Music in Korea
- B.A. in Korean Traditional Music from Seoul National University in Korea
- Visiting Professor at Suwon University, and Pansori Instructor at Kaywon High School of Arts
- Featured Artist and instructor at Poland-Korea UNESCO Culture Month, Warsaw University (2024)
- Opening Ceremony of Korea-Canada’s 60th Year of Cultural Exchanges–National Arts Centre (2024)
- Gold Prize (Pansori), Dong-A Korean Traditional Music Competition
- New Rising Female Cultural Artist Award for Women’s News (2023)
- Young Theater Award, 60th Baeksang Arts Awards for Maeng (Composer, 2022-2024)
- Best Production Award, 63rd Korean Theater Awards for Chucheonseok who lives in Jincheon (Composer, 2024)
- M.A. in Korean Traditional Percussion from Korea National University of Arts in Korea
- B.A. in Korean Traditional Music from Hanyang University in Korea
- Two-Hands (2024, Composer/Music Performer)
- DDP Hanbok Expo video music production (2024)
- Korea and Denmark co-directed After war (2023, Composer/Music Director)
- First-place award at the 38th National Gosu Competition (2018)
- Grand Prize at the 7th Youth Festival Cheongchun Yeoljeo (2022)
- Ph.D. in Philosophy from Jagiellonian University
- Founder of Sound Oriented Spontaneous Improvisation
- “Comprehension by resonance – a philosophical concert” January 2025
- Composer of theater music (Old Theater in Krakow, National Theater in Warsaw, Polish Theater in Poznan and others)
- Curator of festivals and concert/event series: Krakow Jazz Autumn Festival; New Polyphonies, Kraków; Concerts Of Deep Listening – House of Utopia, Kraków
- Professor of the Jazz program at the University of Zielona Góra
- Member of band Robotobibok (1999-2008)
- Founder of duet – Mikrokolektyw (Microcollective) (2004-2015)
- Realesed 30 albums for labels such as Delmark Records, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Fundacja Słuchaj, Bołt and Vytvornia OM
- M.A. in Composition from The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Poland
- B.A. in Composition from Keimyung University in Korea, and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Poland
- Selected Composer, 2024 TIMF Academy Education under Unsuk Chin and Dieter Ammann Collaboration with Ensemble Intercontemporain
- Special Prize, Artisee Over The Classic Composition Contest (2024)
- Second Prize, 7th Krzysztof Penderecki Composition Competition (2023)
- M.M. in Composition from University of Music Dresden in Germany 2
- B.A. in Composition from Korea National University of Arts in Korea
- Artistic Director Yeongwol Contemporary Music Festival (2022-)
- Ensemble Composer SONOR XXI (2015-2023)
- Tongyeong Int. Music Festival Academy 2024 with Unsuk Chin and Dieter Ammann
- Synthesis 2023 Poland with Zygmunt Kreuze and Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble
Hashtag Ensemble is a Polish music cooperative founded in 2013, consisting of 18 musicians and led by a creative group. Specializing in contemporary music, improvisation, and education, it performs at national and international festivals. The ensemble promotes artistic achievements of women, explores new concert formats, and engages diverse audiences. In 2023, it opened Hashtag Lab, Poland’s first permanent stage for new music, supporting performances, workshops, and collaborations. Committed to egalitarianism and social responsibility, Hashtag Ensemble fosters connections within the contemporary music community and advocates for democratic cultural institutions.
