Soon thereafter, her short story The Loneliness of Others (타인의 고독) received the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, and Sampoong Department Store (삼풍백화점) received the Modern Literary Award.

Jeong Yi-hyeon is also an innovator in the field of Internet serialization in Korea, having written her second novel You Do Not Know, on the Kyobo Book Center blog.

[1] In opposition to the Korean literary tradition of focusing on the marginalised and dispossessed, Jeong Yi-hyeon depicts the dating, marriage, career lives, desires and conflicts of urban women.

It is regarded as the origin of representative South Korean chick lit.

After My Sweet City was published, it ignited a chick lit craze in Korea.