In other words, the true important purpose of life is in the feeling of the present, and the diverse emotions from it such as pain, sympathy, pity, and beauty.
"[1] It can be said that Yoon's literary aim is to create a reading experience that breathes with the rhythm of life, using fiction as the subject.
in 2004; Gamgi (감기 Cold) in 2007; Utneun dongan (웃는 동안 While Laughing) in 2011; and Begereul beda (베게를 베다 Resting on a Pillow) in 2016.
During this time, Yoon won the 50th Hyundae Literary Award with "Yuteonjijeome bomuljidoreul mutda" (유턴지점에 보물지도를 묻다 Burying a Treasure Map At the U-turn Spot), the 2nd This Year's Art Prize in Literature with "Geogi, dangsin" (거기, 당신?
Yoon's short story "Geu namjaui chaek 198 jjok" (그 남자의 책 198쪽 Page 198 of the Man's Book) was produced into a movie of the same name by director Kim Jung-kwon in 2008.
Hwang Jong-yeon has said that Yoon is a "writer of the polaroid generation, who has grown up with the marvels of camera technology", and describes that "the founding idea of the meticulous descriptions that are prevalent across Yoon's fiction, is that something visual (expression, behavior, action, the views) correlated with something intangible (experiences, mind, the truth), and that it is the most realistic correlation.
Literary critic Kim Yeong-chan has said that "The characteristic, as well as a strength, of Yoon Sung-hee's fiction, is that even as she vividly lays out the individual living situations within the unhandsome peripheral modernity, she does not color it with another ideological narrative, or romanticizes it too rashly."