Growing up in a rural area in Seoul, Eunhye Hong Kim has observed the daily lives of people who survive at the edge of society without having an active voice to society or not having enough support to their life. After she moved to the United States when she was 19, it was an eye-opening moment for her. She could see the society that she lived in from a very different way and she found herself to be a storyteller who is naturally drawn to tell the stories of people whom she grew up with. She makes stories about women, teenagers, and immigrants that she could empathize.