"[4] Bang enrolled in the Chung-Ang University's Department of Creative writing in 1980 and later, under an assumed identity, worked as a laborer in Incheon.
[5] Bang has worked as a creative writing professor at Chung-Ang University, on the editorial board of Silcheonmunhak, and as the editor-in-chief of Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature.
Bang's first work was The First Step Forward which focused on factory laborers and their struggle to save union.
[6] For Ten Years focuses on the yushin dictatorship under Park Chung Hee and Your Left Side is a portrait of the dictatorship under Chun Doo Hwan who came into power through the violent suppression of May 18th Democratic Uprising in Gwangju.
His A Form of Existence is an attempt to find "a solution through literature" to the problematic relationship between Vietnam and Korea, engendered by Korea's participation in Vietnam War, and illuminates not just the past, but the present as well as the future of the two countries' relationship.