Yeon Ock Ko is a playwright who debuted in 1996 at the Spring Literary Contest hosted by The Busan-Ilbo (The Busan Daily Newspaper). Selected works include Laugh. The Tombs (2003), Inside the Footprints (2007), The Lord Has Come (2011), I am Your Brother (2015), The Guests (2017), and The Sense of My Wife (2017). Ko’s works are significant in their examination of the human instinct by way of combining non-fiction stories with mythical ones. JAT Project, an art-creation group founded in 2013, is comprised of eight young artists. Through the medium of performance, they roam through human lives, observing and considering the implications of our social bodies and the languages of our times, thereby exploring new languages and raising questions on human subjects. Selected works of the group are Poetry, Spit Out (Studio 76, 2014), and Through an Alley (Namsan Arts Center, 2017).
