Joon Kim, writer and flamenco performance planner, Ph.D. in international politics, lives in Masan, South Korea, where he was born in 1944. He has written eight literary books in Korean and one e-book in English, and translated four English books into Korean. He worked for Kyung Nam Domin Daily in Kyung Nam Do as an editorial writer (1999-2001). He produced and directed five flamenco-pansori performances (2005- 2013). He is the author of seven fact-fiction books in Korean on local painters and their artworks, in series, titled ’Chang Dong in Blue’ published for fifteen years of 2004-2019.