She is a founding member of the women's feminist film collective "Bariteo," which was established in 1989. She worked as a cinematographer on Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name (dir. Kim So-young, 1989), a short film about gender discrimination at work, and My Children (dir. Doe Sung-hee, 1990), a documentary film about childcare in a poor neighborhood. Her first documentary Women Being in Asia (1993) centers on the sex trade in Asia, particularly the sex tourism of Jeju Island.

Filmography

• Queen Mantis — Director, Creator
• Black Out — Director, Creator
• While you are tempted
• 2012Helpless — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• 2004Flying Boys — Director
• 2004Repatriation — Director of Photography
• 2002Ardor — Screenplay, Director
• 2000My Own Breathing — Director, Director of Photography
• 1997Habitual Sadness — Director, Producer
• 1995The Murmuring — Director, Writer
• 1993A Woman Being in Asia — Editor, Director, Director of Photography
• 1989Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name — Screenplay, Director of Photography
• A Mark Against Thee — Director

Appearances as themselves (9)

• Behind Every Star — Self
• 역습: 팩추얼 웹툰 창작단 — Self
• Modern Korea — Self (archive footage)
• Movie Room — Self
• 2012Ari Ari the Korean Cinema — Self
• 2007Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young — Self
• 2007Women Behind the Camera — Self
• 2002Keeping the Vision Alive — Herself
• 2001The Jang Sun-woo Variations — Self