Justin Paul Barrass is an English teacher at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He also taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, which is also in South Korea. He taught at Northumbria University, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., too. He studied mathematics at the University of Wales, Bangor.

He was born in 1976 in Stockton-on-Tees, U.K.. He went to Bangor, Wales to go to university. He has also lived in Ulsan (South Korea), Istanbul (Turkey) and Bundang (South Korea). He now lives in Seoul.