Jung is a member of the Ma-Yi Theater Writers' Lab and was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
In addition to writing several plays, Jung has also written for the television series Tales Of the City.
[1] At age 20, Jung studied abroad as an exchange student at New York University; three years later, she moved to the United States.
[1] Jung has translated over thirty English-language musicals into Korean, including Spamalot, Dracula, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Evita.
[4][5] In 2015, Jung participated in a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, where she developed her play Cardboard Piano.
[11] For the 2019/20 academic year at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, Jung was one of five Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellows and the only playwright of the five artists.
[12] In 2020, Jung was commissioned by Alliance Theatre to write an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as part of their Classic Remix Project.
[21] In 2022, New York's Tripwire Harlot Press announced they would be releasing a collected edition of some of Jung's works as part of their "Sledgehammer Series," which aims to publish more plays by writers of colour.
[24] In 2021, Jung was selected to be a participant in the Writers Guild of America, East's first Showrunner Academy program.
[8] The plot of the play spans a total of 30 years and explores legacy, impact, and experiences of the Korean 'comfort women' of World War II.
The first act takes place on the eve of the new millennium when two teenage girls, one American and one Ugandan, perform a makeshift wedding only to be interrupted by a child soldier.
[37] Wild Goose Dreams premiered in 2017 at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego under the direction of Leigh Silverman.