The author made her debut when her work The Ssireum Ring As a Field of Stars won the Spring Literary Contest of the Jeonnam Ilbo. She went on to receive the Gyemyeong Literary Award and Nunnopi Daekyo Children's Literary Award. Her publications include Engraved Letters with One's Heart, JIKJI, Dad Is My Hero, Sweet Potato Flowers, Bonggu Is No. 1, Mrs. Gu Yangsoon at Happy Mart Is Full of Smiles, and The Birth of Leader Kim.