Kim Eunju graduated from Hongik University with a degree in Oriental Painting and majored in illustration at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Milano, Italy. Kim worked as an animator at Gertie Animation Studio in Italy, won the Excellence Prize at the Book Artwork Contest, and won a prize at the Italian Peninsula Picture Book Contest. She has drawn pictures for many books including Humans' Old Friend, the Dog and The Ecosystem Learned from Mysterious Animals.