Gu Byeong-mo

Gu Byeong-mo made one of the more striking debuts in recent Korean fiction, winning a major prize in 2009 with Wizard Bakery. Born in Seoul in 1976 and educated at Kyung Hee University, she fascinates me because she refuses to stay in one lane, moving from young-adult fantasy to the bracing noir of The Old Woman with the Knife, whose elderly female assassin is a wonderfully audacious premise. That genre-hopping freedom is rare and, to me, the mark of real confidence. She sits in a productive stretch of her career, and I expect her to keep subverting expectations. She is a writer I happily make shelf space for.

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Name (English)

Gu Byeong-mo

Name (Japanese)

ク・ビョンモ

Reading

く・びょんも

Born

1976

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

novelist / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Dragon

University

Kyung Hee University

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/ere_whon
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%20Byeong-mo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20666631

Tags

• novelist
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.