Lee Byungryul (born 1967) is a South Korea poet, television writer, and prose writer. He is viewed as having a tendency for lyrical poetry. He is the only writer in Korea to have published a travel essay and sold more than a million copies of it. For a long time he was a writer for MBC Radio, and currently he is the president of the publisher, Dal, an imprint of Munhakdongne. In 2006, he won the 11th Contemporary Poetry Award. Life Lee Byungryul (born 1967) is a South Korea poet, television writer, and prose writer. He was born in Jecheon, Chungcheongbuk-do. He had first started writing when he wanted to list all the things he likes and he hates. He graduated from Seoul Institute of the Arts in creative writing. He started his literary career when he was selected for the 1995 Korea Times New Writer's Contest. In 2006, he won the 11th Contemporary Poetry Award. He also worked as a writer for the MBC radio show, Lee Sora’s FM Music City. Meanwhile, he has also written a critical biography on John Lennon, and he began to be publicly known as he published travel books such as Kkeullim (끌림 Attraction), and Barami bunda dangsini jotda (바람이 분다 당신이 좋다 The Wind Blows, and I Like You). His travel essays not only describe the travel locations as well as episodes that have happened on location, but also communicate with the reader and describe the sight of the travel locations with new emotions. He is currently the only writer to have sold more than 1 million copies of travel essays in South Korea. He is currently the president of the publisher, Dal, an imprint of Munhakdongne, and a member of Sihim. Writing Lee Byungryul is a lyric poet. His works deal with life's various scenes such as love, parting, and death. His first poetry collection, Dangsineun eodingaro garyeohanda (당신은 어딘가로 가려한다 You are trying to go somewhere), details the image of a lonely person. However, the poet does not remain isolated, and tries to reach out to the outside world. This is because he knows that ‘a person’s shadow coming over a person’s home is a wonderfully beautiful thing’. He has shown that he carefully observes objects or persons, as well as loving, caring, and having compassion for them. Here, his poetry became a provider of warmth to a life of heaviness