A journalist for The Hankook Ilbo, she majored in Clothing and Textiles at Hanyang University. Her career spans magazines and weekly publications before transitioning to a daily newspaper, where she has been working as a journalist for a decade. Her reporting began with fashion and has since expanded to cover architecture, art, food, design, publishing, and pop culture. In 2014, she wrote the serialized feature Living in Small Houses, introducing compact homes across Korea. With a natural inclination toward applied arts over fine arts—partly due to her aversion to the commodification of art—she found joy as an architecture journalist and feels slightly less fulfilled in her current role covering literature.