Kim Hoyeon is a novelist and scenario writer. He has written the novels Mangwon-dong Brothers (2013), Rival Lover (2015) and Ghost Writers (2017); scenarios for Double Agent (2003) and Heartbreak Hotel (2015); and participated in the planning of movie Namhansanseong Fortress (2017). Fauster, which is based on Goethe's Faust, is his fourth novel, which he completed after 3 years of planning and writing.