Geum-Hee Hong was born in Korea in 1977 and studied Visual Communication Design at the Hong-ik University in Seoul. She worked as a book designer and freelance illustrator in Seoul before completing a second degree at the Hochschule der Künste in Bremen, Germany. She is the author of Here and There (2008), a book about life in a foreign country. Geum-Hee lives in Frankfurt am Main.