Han Bi-ya

After publishing "March to the World, Off the Map", she began public lecture activities. In 2012, she was appointed as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University.

She started the World Vision Global Citizenship School with an advertising fee of 100 million won, and then donated 100 million won of the book "That Was Love". In addition, she has been providing audio guides at the Global Citizenship Education Center in Seoul Land. In 2011, she became the first Principal of the World Citizenship School.

Han Bi-ya attended Seungeui Girls' High School (숭의여자고등학교) in Seoul. She studied English literature at Hongik University and completed graduate studies at the University of Utah. In 2009, she studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Based on the 2005 World Vision overseas donation, which has increased since the "March to the World, Off the Map" published in 2005, it has produced relief team members and cooperated with WFP (World Food Program).

Han Bi-ya has been a World Vision Korea Emergency Relief Team Leader since 2001 to stop her work by August 2009 for studying humanitarian supports and relief and has been promoting international awareness of the world's refugee crises. She has been active in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central and South America. Han Bi-ya said that her refugee relief activities have helped her realize the urgent need to develop diverse mechanisms for preventing wars and conflicts around the world. She hopes she can come up with an idea to deal with international affairs in the future through the experiences in relief activities.

Han Bi-ya first became known for her travel books. She wrote a four-volume best seller, Daughter of the Wind: Three and a Half Times Around the Globe on Foot, an account of her seven-year (1993–1999) travels around the world. Han had quit a profitable and high-status job at Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations and communications firm, and jumped into what she liked most.

Han Bi-ya (Korean: 한비야 ; born 26 June 1958 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean travel writer, relief worker and poverty reduction, refugee advocate. She has published a number of best-selling travel books and lead the Emergency Relief Team for World Vision Korea. She is one of the top celebrities of impact in South Korea according to Hankyoreh and one of the most respected Koreans in a 2009 poll of university students. In August 2009, she stopped to work in World Vision to study the theories concerning humanitarian work and support at Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.