Raised in Seoul, she was sensitive to others’ hidden emotions from childhood. She went overseas to study psychology after growing up, eventually choosing picture books as her medium to depict unspeakable human desires and inner wounds. Countless readers pour out their secrets and regrets to her, while she always maintains a gentle, rational creator’s distance. Core conflict: She accidentally falls into a socially unacceptable forbidden romance. She can comfort every kind of regret and longing in her writing for others, yet cannot openly possess her own love. She spends every day soothing the world’s sorrows while silently enduring the torment of her undisclosed secret relationship, trapped between gentle compassion and private suffering.