He obtained his Master of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1997 where he discovered photography by coming into contact with other photographers while pursuing his degree.
[4] Jung is known for photographs, videos and installations that obscure borders of reality and representation by revealing to the viewer the mechanisms used to create his work.
[11] His first solo exhibition in Australia contained two single-channel videos titled Documentary Nostalgia (2007) and Twilight Seoul (2012).
Documentary Nostalgia (2007) is an 84-minute silent video consisting of stagehands pulling apart and creating a series of scenes for a stable camera.
They create a panorama of Seoul using remains from Jung’s studio as material, like cardboard boxes and broken electronics along with lights and a smoke machine as they discuss the choices on camera.
[12] His exhibition Just Like the Road across the Earth at Japan’s Art Tower Mito in 2014 includes Blind Perspective (2014), Boramae Dance Hall (2001), and Six Points, Ordinary Paradise (2010).
Blind Perspective (2014) is a sculptural landscape made with the ruined infrastructure and waste found in Japan after the tsunami that is then transformed once the viewer puts on the virtual reality headset.