Lee Yeongdo

Novelist, Author

1972 –

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Who is Lee Yeongdo?

Lee Yeongdo is a Korean novelist known for his work in fantasy and science fiction genre. He is best known for his Dragon Raja series of fantasy novels which is also his debut work, serialised on an online forum from 1997 and published on its completion in 1998.

At the time Dragon Raja was first published, Korean readership for fantasy genre was considered unsubstantial and unaccounted for by press. But Dragon Raja has sold close to 2 million books in 4 languages. This was a significant feat for the fantasy genre in Korea where the annual circulation of domestic literature and fiction titles as a whole, ranges between 12~20 million copies.

Dragon Raja's success has prompted a rapid growth of Korean fantasy and science fiction genre, and contributed to the growing acceptance of works written online, known as Internet literature, both by the country's general public and literary world.

Lee is currently one of the best-selling fantasy writer in Korea.

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Born
1972
Busan
Nationality
  • South Korea
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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