The author has been teaching Korean for over twenty years at universities in Korea, the USA, Canada, and Taiwan. She wrote Full Focus in a Foreign Language (theory), It becomes a language when you go there (translation), Korean Verbs and Adjectives for Beginners, and other books.

At present, she lives in South Korea and teaches the foreign undergraduate and graduate students at Kookmin, Dongguk, and Hongik Universities as well as doing academic research on a grant from Korea Research Foundation, devoting her time to a study on education in Korean culture. In addition, she is a member of the Taiwan National Kaohsiung Normal University Korea Research Center and participates in the Korea-Taiwan Culture Education project.