[1] Jung Chan was born in 1953[1] and graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Korean Education.
[1] Jung is a popular artist, having appeared at LTI Korea 2010 Seoul International Writers' Festival under the theme "Fantasy + Empathy".
[3] Jung was profoundly influenced by the Gwangju Uprising, which occurred while he was working as a reporter for The Dong-A Ilbo.
[4] Jung's Ice House (Eoreumui jip) and Song of Sadness (Seulpeumui norae) offer a careful meditation upon the language of novels and Owl focuses on the tension between God's silence and the language of corrupt power.
[1] In Ice House (Eoreumui jip), what the powerful pursues so relentlessly is ultimately identified as the place of God.