[1] Kim Haki was born on June 24, 1958[2] in Ulsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
[3] Kim attended Busan National University, and after participating in the student movement was arrested in 1980 for demonstrating against the expansion of Korean Martial Law.
[4] After his release from prison Kim became a full-time writer when he published A Young Man Imprisoned, which was a collection of poems and letters he had composed while being imprisoned.
In 1989, his story Living Tomb was published in the Changbi Magazine.
Kim's short story collection Complete Union won the first Im Sygyeong Unification Literary Award and in 1992 he received the 10th Shing Dong-yeop Creative Fund for Writers Prize.