Her work experience formed the basis for building her realistic narratives and story structures for her novels, Shoot Me in the Heart (내 심장을 쏴라), and Chilnyeonui bam (7년의 밤 Seven Years of Darkness).

Her uncle was a playwright who had died due to poverty in his early 40s, and her mother feared her daughter would meet a similar fate.

Shoot Me in the Heart (내 심장을 쏴라) was made into a film released in 2015 by director Mun Che-yong and starring Yeo Jin-goo and Lee Min-ki.

Seven Years of Night (7년의 밤) was produced with Choo Chang-min as director and starring Jang Dong-gun and Ryu Seung-ryong.

[9] Literary critic Kim Hwayoung and writer Hwang Sok-yong, the judges at the time, had said that the work had a weakness in that the story was “hard to get through in the beginning,’ but also that it “makes one have sincere doubts through the metaphor of how life goes round in circles despite constantly dreaming and attempting escape”.

"[12] 28 is about the end of the world brought about by a waterborne epidemic, while The Good Son (종의 기원) deals with the origin of evil within people.