She holds a MFA degree in Costume Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the professional training center, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and a MA degree with a thesis in Costume Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BA from Korea University. At Ball State University, she teaches costume design, stage make-up, costume rendering, costume history, color studies, costume form and materials among others, and has successfully designed many productions such as The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, The Wild Party, Love's Labour's Lost, David Hochoy’s Dance, Camino Real, The Fantasticks, Angels in America-Millennium Approaches, Major Barbara, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Three Sisters, Iphigenia 2.0, and others.