As the Netflix drama ‘Bullish’ starring IU and Park Bo-gum captivates the world, attention is once again focused on writer Lim Sang-choon, who wrote the script.

Curiosity is focused on him because he illuminates the daily lives of ordinary people with the warm sunlight of a spring day and creates memorable lines that everyone reflects on at least once in their lives with the power of extraordinary storytelling.

In particular, as this drama recorded 6 million viewers (48.1 million hours watched in total), ranking second among non-English TV shows, eliciting empathy and emotion, people have begun to ‘search for traces’ of writer Lim’ abroad as well as in Korea.

In fact, writer Lim is known in the broadcasting industry only as a popular writer who wrote ‘Fight, My Way’ ‘When the Camellia Blooms’, and is known as a mystery whose real name is not even known.

Unlike other ‘star writers’ such as Kim Eun-hee and Kim Eun-sook, she is famous as a ‘faceless writer’ because she never shows up at official stages such as production presentations, broadcasts, or interviews. That is why there is not even a single photo of her on the Internet.

According to a broadcasting official, writer Lim is known to have kept to this rule due to her unique belief that ‘writers only speak through writing and it seems bad for them to be in front of their work’.

The only information that is known is that she worked at a company until her early 20s and debuted in her late 20s in 2016 with the MBC one-act play ‘The Hurt of My Life’. She currently lives with her husband in Mapo-gu, Seoul.

The name Im Sang-chun is also a combination of the character ‘Sang’(想), which can be considered a pen name, and the character ‘Chun’(賰), which means generous. It is known that he was born in 1985, but even this is not accurate.

Even Fan Entertainment, which has had a contract with writer Im for nearly 10 years, is thoroughly keeping quiet about specific information and maintaining non-disclosure. Actors who have appeared in writer Im‘s dramas have also been talking to writer Im mainly through text messages.

An actor who appeared in the drama ‘Baek-hee is Back’ in 2016, before writer Im began to receive attention, said, “He was very shy and seemed to speak nicely,” and “He has a small build and listened to the other person’s stories more when talking. If you talk to him, you will realize that he is a warm-hearted person.”



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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