Choi Taeseob (M) is culture critic and sociology researcher. By submitting articles about games, comics and feminism to the Ddanzi Ilbo, he began living a life as a writer in 2006. He completed a Ph.D program in sociology at SungKongHoe University, and is currently submitting articles to various media outlets, including the Kyunghyang Shinmun. His interest in gender issues in Korea has been one of the major themes in his writing, and he is particularly interested in the hatred for women that young Korean men developed after the 2000s. He has written Surplus Society, The Country of the ​Victimized, Reasoning at the Edge and How Passion Becomes Labor (co-writer). His latest work, Korea, Men, analyzes manhood in the Korean society.