Lee studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and debuted as the winner of the nationwide internet literary prize in Today’s Literature, in 2002. As well as being a novelist, he is also a game designer and script writer. Lee has published a total of 44 novels since 2006. After winning an award for The Magical Stamp, in the 2014 KB Original Children’s Stories Competition, he began his career as a children’s story writer. He continues to invite readers into his world of wild imagination through his stories.