Seoul Institute of the Arts
Cheon Un-yeong was born in 1971, in Seoul, South Korea. He attended university at the Seoul Institute of the Arts studying creative writing studies; Hanyang University where she achieved a B.A. in Journalism; and the Korea University Graduate School of literature. Although Cheon has only produced two volumes of short stories, she is considered a groundbreaker in Korean literature, and her works have been the subject of much analysis.