Kyung Hye-won explained

Kyung Hye-won
Occupation:	illustrator, picture book author
Language:	Korean
Genre:	Picture books

Kyung Hye-won(Korean: 경혜원) is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator. Her representative works include Elevator, Dinosaur X-Ray, Bigger Than You, I’m a Lion, and My Big, Secret Friend. She won the Taiwan Open Book Award in 2018 for Dinosaur X-Ray.^[1]

Career

Kyung has worked as an illustrator since 2004, mainly providing illustrations for children's books. She published her first picture book, Special Friends, in 2014. Her representative works include Elevator, Dinosaur X-Ray, Bigger Than You, I’m a Lion, and My Big, Secret Friend. Since many of her picture books are dinosaur-themed, she is also known as a "dinosaur author" to children in Korea.

Her work with Dinosaur X-Ray won the Taiwan Open Book Award for Best Children's Book in 2018. Bigger than You (2018) was first published by HarperCollins, an American publisher, and then exported back to Korea.

Works

• 2022 Me, the T-Rex, and Christmas (Munhakdongne)
• 2022 My Big, Secret Friend (Changbi)
• 2021 I'm a Lion (BIR)
• 2020 Thump, Thump (Sigong Junior)
  • 2022 冬冬 (Kanghao,Taiwan)
• 2020 The Candle Book (Woongjin Junior)
  • 2021 蟠燭書 (Kanghao, Taiwan)
• 2020 Go Back Inside the Egg! (Hanlim)
  • 2021 到你的劉壽負裡! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
• 2019 I'm Taller Than You! (BIR)
  • 2020 化你更高! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
  • 2020 Je suis plus grand que toi! (Rue du Monde, France)
• 2018 Bigger Than You (HarperCollins)^[2]
  • 2018 Bigger Than You (Hallim, Korea) from the USA original Bigger Than You
• 2017 Just One Bite (Hanlim)
  • 2018 給我吃一口! (Kanghao, Taiwan)
• 2017 Dinosaur X-Ray (Hanlim)
  • 2018 恐龍X光 (Kanghao, Taiwan)
  • 2020 L’hôpital des dinosaures (Éditions Versant Sud,Belgium)
  • 2020 ДИНОЗАВРЫ НА РЕНТТЕН! (Rosman,Russia)
• 2016 Elevator (Sigong Junior)
  • 2016 Elevador (Océano Travesía, Mexico)
  • 2017 電梯 (Kanghao, Taiwan)
• 2014 Special Friends (Sigong Junior)
  • 2018 特別的朋友們 (Kanghao, Taiwan)

Activities

• 2022 Participated in "Korean Picture Books: Fantasy in Everyday Life” seminar for Hong Kong primary and secondary school students at the Hong Kong Book Fair^[3]
• 2022 Participated in "Meet Author Kyung Hye-won" held at Mu Kuang English School in Kwun Tong, under the aegis of the Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong^[4]
• 2022 Collaborated in the Mighty Wonders exhibition with ceramic artists^[5]
• 2017 53rd Group Exhibition at the Amway Museum of Art, Picture Books at the Museum (Exhibiting artists: Kyung Hye-won, Kim Myeong-seok, Lee Gi-hun, Lee Myung-ae, Lee Seok-gu, Jung Jinho)^[6]

References

1. Web site: 2018-11-30 . 2018Openbook 最佳童書》恐龍X光 . 2023-06-26 . Openbook閱讀誌 . zh-hant.
2. Web site: Bigger Than You by Hyewon Kyung . 2023-06-26 . www.publishersweekly.com.
3. Web site: Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong . 2023-06-27 . Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong . en.
4. Web site: Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong . 2023-06-27 . Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong . en.
5. Web site: Mighty Wonders, 강렬하고 신비로운 힘 . 2023-06-27 . stibee.com . ko.
6. Web site: www.timesisa.com . 2023-06-27 . www.timesisa.com.

External links

• • http://bookstopliterary.com/illustrators/hyewon-kyung.html
• https://klwave.or.kr/klw/authors/201242/authorsView.do
• https://k-book.or.kr/user/authors/authors_view?idx=2136