Kim Hye-shin graduated in French culture and language at Korea University of Seoul. She is a professional translater of art books. She graduated fron cinema studies at Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained her Ph D in mai 2005. She is currently teaching cinema and culture of images at Korea University and Konkuk University. Other than teaching at Faculty of Jeonju, she is also a cinema critic (Fipresci Korea) and theater critic. She helped organizing section "South Korea: Literary films".