Ahn Sook Kim is a member of the Federation of Asian Storytellers (FEAST) as well as the Korea International Storytellers Association. She helped organise the First Korea International Storytelling Festival in 2018. She tells tales to children and adults. Before that, for twenty-five years she ran an English Academy, helping children learn English after school. She graduated with a Masters in Korean History and then worked as a school teacher and a local newspaper reporter in Daegu. She says that, now she has retired, she has more time to concentrate on storytelling.