Lee Seunghyun (M) was born in Gwangju in 1972. He studied Illustration at the Hanguk Illustration School and the Graduate School of the University of Seoul. He won the 28th Korean Children's Book Award in illustration category for Ssireum. He has worked on the picture books Looking for a Son-in-Law Who's Good at Lying, The Noble Who Manipulated Ghosts, The Drifting Record of Yi Seondal, My D'Artagnan and Ghost Gamtu. Lee also worked on the Korean Life Museum series, and he is currently engaged in researching people by observing who sits in the seats for the elderly and handicapped. He continues to make an effort to create picture books that embody the pain people experience in life.