Kim, Byongsun is Professor Emeritus at the Academy of Korean Studies, currently serving as Professor at the Faculty of Korean Studies, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Academic Advisor to the Oral Traditions Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His representative works include A Study on the Chang-ga and the Formation of Korean Modern Poetry and Modern Poetry and Statistics of Literature. Both publications were awarded the Outstanding Academic Book Prize by the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea.