Guiyeoni Explained

Birth Name:Lee Yoon-sae
Birth Date:1985
Birth Place:Jecheon, South Korea
Nationality:South Korean
Notable Works:Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

Guiyeoni (Korean: 귀여니, born 1985) is the pen name of internet novelist Lee Yoon-sae (이윤세).

Career

She first reached fame with her novel He Was Cool, which she serialized for 2 months since August 2001 in Daum's humor threads when she was a 2nd year in high school in Jecheon girl's high school.[1] Subsequent works such as Romance of Their Own, spawned commercially successful films of the same name, as with another book, A Wolf's Attraction. Since then, one of her other books, Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, has become a film starring Jang Keun-suk. A movie of To My Boyfriend is also in planning stages. Despite her commercial success, Guiyeoni has been criticized for her lack of literary perfection, overuse of emoticons,[2] and unrealistic setting in her works. Besides the aforementioned novels, she has also written Africa, Five Stars, and written and illustrated a manhwa called Syndrome.

Personal life

She married in 2018.[3]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 책으로 나온 인터넷소설 '그 놈은 멋있었다' 중고생들 열광. 8 April 2003. The Dong-a Ilbo.
  2. News: Literary lolita shares her joys, travails. 5 December 2003. JoongAng Daily. 9 July 2010.
  3. Web site: [단독] 인터넷 소설가 귀여니, 지난달 결혼…신랑 애칭은 '달코미 왕자']. Kyunghyang Shinmun. June 2018 .