[3] In 1999 he won the 12th Dongseo Literary Award with his collection of short stories, A Chain of Dark Tales.

In 2005 Jung was invited to participate in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and in 2010 the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Korea Study invited him to participate in a three-month-long residency program.

The novel portrays a man mired in ennui, in which state he contemplates the meaning of life.

[6] Following this he released collections and novels including Black Chain Stories (1998), Pale Soliloquy (2000), Yawn (2006) and, most recently, A Contrived World (2012).

Black Chain Stories (A Chain of Dark Tales, in English publication) is a collection of Kafkaesque short stories (some extremely short), which delve into the question of what being means, and what the loss of being means.