For economic reasons, her family moved from rural Korea to the capital Seoul during her childhood, a story portrayed in her work "Le chant de mon père".

[7] After his time at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, she did some exhibitions and residencies abroad, but had financial difficulties.

So she started a part-time job translating Korean comics into French, where she developed her interest in the genre.

[4] After living years in France, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim and her husband Loïc Gendry moved to South Korea in 2011.

[8] It was in 2013, when she worked on a short comic book called "Secret" based on victims' testimony, that she decided to write a comic book about the plight of sex slaves during the war, called 'comfort women', which resulted in her award-winning work "Grass".