He graduated from Yonsei University’s Department of Korean Language and Literature and received his Ph.D. from the same graduate school. He was a researcher at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and is currently a university lecturer and translator. He is the author of The Renaissance Man Kim Seung-ok (co-author), and the translator of I Am a Cat, Kokoro, The Light of Illusion, Story of the Crusades, Cut Off, Those Praying Hands, The Birth of Form, We All Return Home,* and other books. He won the Korea Publishing Culture Award (Translation) for the complete works of Natsume Soseki.

『나는 고양이로소이다』 『마음』 『환상의 빛』 『십자군 이야기』 『잘라라, 기도하는 그 손을』 『형태의 탄생』 『우리는 모두 집으로 돌아간다』 등이 있다. 나쓰메 소세키 전집으로 한국출판문화상(번역 부문)을 수상했다.