She is the oldest of three children and this position resulted in her often taking on the role of a son.
After graduating from high school Ha worked in a wood-importing firm and entered the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts in 1990.
[3] During all this time Ha had been writing and she debuted in 1996 with her short story "Grass."
She won the prestigious Dong-in Literary Award with her short story "Flowers of Mold,"[4] as well as the Hyeondae Literary Award for her story "Alpha's Time."
[3] The Literature Translation Institute of Korea sums Ha's work up: Novels Short story collections Other Translated short stories in magazines/journals/anthologies