Jung received the Uri Education Children's Book Author Award in 2009 for her work Pansori Soripan, and in 2014, she won the international children and youth history book submission contest for her work The Foreigners in Korean History. Her works include Curious Sunbi Kim Loves Korean Cultural Properties!, Curious Sunbi Kim Loves Proverbs and Idioms!, and Baekgok and the Otherworldly Library.