Lee Sang Hyun (M) graduated from the University of Seoul worked at the Korea Land and Housing Corporation. From then he began to build a relationship with "houses." He left the company to write a novel, but as participating in the writing of 30 Years of Yongpyong Resort, he fell in love with hanok and became a hanok researcher.

He even learned carpentry in order to understand hanok more systematically. The person who writes a book is called 作家 in Chinese, whose literal meaning is a person who builds a house. A writer builds a house of mind while a person who handles wood builds a house for body. He is building a house for body and mind.