The author's real name is Kim Jongan (金鐘安, M). He was born in 1916 in Cheorwon in Gangwon Province. He was dismissed from Kyungsung Second Gobo, the predecessor of Gyeongbok High School, for standing up against a Japanese teacher during the Japanese Colonial period. Kim later worked in construction sites and mines to provide for his single mother while also writing novels and poems. He studied design and plumbing on his own and later started a cooperative company called "Daesung Enterprise."
He published his short story Cheek in 1946 in Shincheonji, but could not continue his literary work. When he turned 51, in 1965, he won the the 1st Mystery Novel Contest hosted by Weekly Korea with Perfect Society, which was published as a book with the same name in 1967. This work is judged to be Korea's first sci-fi novel and it was a big shock to the established literary groups at the time.
The author was an early active member of the Korean Mystery Writers Association and insisted on the "scientification of mystery novels." He has published many short stories, such as What Happened in Denver, The Second Death of Hauroad, Bungwoondong Reminiscence, and Rural Rhapsody based on solid scientific foundations. His full-length novels include Japanse judge and Breaking Chains and he also published the play The Inheritor and the feature epic poem Gourd Flower. He passed away on August 24, 2000, in Suwon at the age of 85.