Yeon-Jeong Kim has taught Korean language at the University of Sheffield since 2014. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Communication from the University of Sheffield. Previously, she taught Korean to people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in Korea and Japan.

Andrew Killick is a reader in ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield and has published two books and numerous articles on Korean music. He spent six years in Korea teaching English and researching music.