Jeong Jihye was born in 1995 and is based in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do. She studied film directing at Dongseo University and directed the short films Good Girl (2017) and Selling Blood (2018). Her debut feature, Jeong-sun (2022), was screened in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and at other prominent film festivals in Korea and abroad. It won the Grand Prize in Korean Competition at the Jeonju International Film Festival, as well as the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actress Award at the Rome Film Festival.
