Kim Dong-sung (illustrator)

Kim Dong-sung has worked in fields other than picture books, such as newspapers, advertising, posters, and stamps. He contributed illustrations for Korean textbooks in 2008, and produced illustrations for the film Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead in 2011. Kim attended the 14th Berlin International Literature Festival in 2014 as a guest of honor in the children's and young adult literature category, and read from his work.[1] My Name is Today, Waiting for Mummy, and A House Full of Books have all been included in the White Ravens catalogue.

Kim Dong-sung employs cinematic techniques in his work. For example, close-ups, wide shots, low-angle shots, and title sequences are used to lay out scenes in The Nightingale, Wildflower Child, and Waiting for Mummy. Waiting for Mummy depicts scenes of life in Korea under Japanese colonial rule.[2] The Country Mouse Travels to Seoul is set against a backdrop of 1920s Seoul, with detailed depictions of Namdaemun in the past, as well as ancient cars, stores, and streets.[3] He is best known for his Korean-style landscapes rendered in ink wash, used in Wildflower Child, You and I in Jeju, and Springtime in My Hometown, among others.

• 2023 The Strawberries That May (Darim Books) ISBN 9788961773119
• 2021 When Playing House is Over (Sagyejul) ISBN 979-11-6094-746-5
• 2021 The Archer[4] (Munhakdongne) ISBN 978-89-546-8616-7
• 2019 The Country Mouse Travels to Seoul (Gilbut Kids) ISBN 978-89-5582-540-4
• 2015 You and I in Jeju (Flying Star Books) ISBN 979-11-88574-32-2
• 2013 Waiting for Mummy (Borim) ISBN 978-89-433-1151-3
• 2013 The Book Wrap (E*Public) ISBN 979-11-5509-124-1
  • 2019 チェクボ (Fukuinkan, Japan) ISBN 978-4-8340-8436-8
• 2013 Springtime in My Hometown (Bluebird) ISBN 978-89-6155-395-7
• 2011 The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (Hyun Books) ISBN 978-89-97175-04-8
  • 2010 Les Étoiles amoureuses (Flammarion, France) ISBN 978-2916899367
• 2009 A House Full of Books (Munhakdongne) ISBN 978-89-546-3201-0
• 2009 Jumong: The Hero Who Founded Goguryeo (Woongjin ThinkBig) ISBN 978-89-01-10119-4
  • 2011 Jumong (Flammarion, France) ISBN 9782916899503
• 2008 Wildflower Child (Gilbut Kids) ISBN 978-89-5582-082-9
• 2005 The Nightingale (Woongjin ThinkBig) ISBN 978-89-01-04988-5
• 2004 Waiting for Mummy (Hangilsa) ISBN 9788943309725
  • 2005 かあさんまだかな (Froebel-Kan, Japan) ISBN 978-4577031476
  • 2006 En attendant Maman (Didier Jeunesse, France) ISBN 978-2278057153
  • 2007 Wann kommt Mama? (Nord-Sud, Germany/Switzerland) ISBN 978-3905804232
  • 2010 Esperando Mamãe (Comboio de Corda, Brazil) ISBN 978-8560820962
  • 2019 等妈妈 (親子天下, Taiwan)
• 2003 My Name is Today (Woongjin.com) ISBN 978-89-01-26021-1
  • 2007 Le Paradis d’Oneuli (Editions Chan-Ok, France) ISBN 978-2916899039
• 2002 Tansil, the Service Dog Who Became My Eyes (Daekyo) ISBN 89-395-0949-8
• 2001 Dari's House in Binari (Little Mountain Publishing) ISBN 979-11-5525-009-9
• 2001 Echo (Gilbut Kids) ISBN 978-89-86621-78-5
  • 2006 Echo (Editions Paquet, Belgium) ISBN 9782888900955
• 1998 Bicycle Ride with Uncle (Jaimimage) ISBN 978-89-86565-51-5

• Kim Dong-sung’s blog
• Happy Mother's Day, Tae-Jun Lee & Dong-Sung Kim, waiting for mummy