A plain citizen, translator, novelist. She contemplates on the narrative of restoring deleted voices and is interested in history, women, and supernatural phenonema. She has authored the novels A Moonlit Night in Hanseongbu and The Detective Shaman, participated in many short story anthologies, and wrote the autobiographical essay I Live with a North Korean Defector. Being a huge fan of Hong Kong films, Chinese TV series and Taiwanese singers, she went to Sogang University to study Chinese Culture and Mass Communication. She did her master's at the same university on Chinese Drama.