Kim Sehyun was born in 1963 in Yeongi in the South Chungcheong province of South Korea and raised in Daejeon. Kim majored in Oriental Painting in college. In 2004, Kim won the 4th Publication Art Award. In 2009, Kim was selected as an exhibition painting illustrator of the guest-country of honor. Books illustrated by Kim Sehyun include Same Shirts, Strong Bhusoong, The Isolated House in the Isolated area, Fish Bone, Mama Pheasant, Memories of Chung-Gu Hoe, Jongmyo Shrine where People Meet God, The Story of the Grateful Pheasants, The Island of Flowers, The Flower-Shaded Lake, Princess Pyeong-gang and Ondal the Stupid, A Badger and a Flea, The Camellias, and I Won't Go Out Even if the King Calls Me.