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Bae Suah (born 1965) is a South Korean author and translator.

Bae graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in Chemistry. At the time of her debut in 1993, she was a government employee working behind the embarkation/disembarkation desk at Gimpo Airport in Incheon. Without formal instruction or guidance from a literary mentor, Bae wrote stories as a hobby. But it wasn’t long before she left her stultifying job to become one of the most daringly unconventional writers to grace the Korean literary establishment in modern years.

She made her debut as a writer with "A Dark Room in 1988" in 1993. Bae stayed in Germany for 11 months between 2001 and 2002, where she began learning German.