Yun Hu-myong (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea[1]) (born January 17, 1946) is a South Korean writer who has published poetry, novels, and essays.

[3] Although he is one of the major Korean writers of the 80s, Yun's fiction maintains some distance from the dominant trend in Korean fiction of 1980s—the concern with realism as an effective literary tool in rendering contemporary social situations.

The archetypal situation in Yun's works is that of a man suffering from a sense of ontological lack; deadened by routines of daily life, he immerses himself in fantasy or travel in order to secure what life in the real world has denied him—meaning of existence and genuine engagement with another human being.

The fantasy cannot last, but it is the ceaseless movement away from the vulgar reality that has the potential to resurrect the self from existential insecurity, loneliness, or despair.

Such romantic individualism is heightened by the sensitive, lyrical style of writing that reflects Yun's poetic sensibilities.