Lee Gibong was born in 1967 at Bibong-myeon, Hwaseong City in the Gyeonggi province of South Korea and graduated from Suseong High School in the city of Suwon. Lee graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Geography and received an MA and PhD from the graduate school of the same university. He served as a senior researcher at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies from February 2002 to March 2009 and has worked as a curator at the National Library of Korea ever since. Books written by Lee Gibong include The City of Kings, The Birth of the Ancient City of Gyeongju, The Geography Class, The City of Joseon, The Space of Authority and Symbol, Commoner Kim Jeongho’s Dream, The Map Geniuses of Joseon, The Giant Kim Jeongho Leading Modern Times, Our Old Maps that Show Land and People, The Names of Our Sad Lands, and The Road of a Thousand Years.