Chin Jung-kwon is a professor at Dongyang University and director of Technology and Aesthetics Institute, in charge of research and synthesis of humanities, design and engineering in games. He majored in Aesthetics at Seoul National University where he also received his M.A. He studied linguistics structuralism at Free University of Berlin. In 1994, he introduced the discipline of aesthetics for the first time to the Korean public with his book, Odyssey in Aesthetics and has continued to explore the field in a unique way, while engaging in an active dialogue with the readers. 

He is the author of the following books; Play, Art and Imagination, Odyssey in Aesthetics (3 Volumes), Western Art History (4 Volumes), The Magpie on the Scaffold, Requiem, Dancing Death 1, 2, Angelus Novus, Lectures on Contemporary Aesthetics, Map of Thought, and Essays on Aesthetics.