Chun Ji-hye began her fiction career with Blusher and Concealer after leaving a varied professional background in PR, marketing, wedding styling, and drama development to write in Jeju. The novel was promoted from Naver’s Challenge League into official serialization and became her first long-form published work. Her firsthand observations of contemporary dating and young women’s emotional lives inform the novel’s candid humor and sharply recognizable relationship dynamics. Chun later expanded her career across web fiction, print publishing, webtoons, and television, establishing herself as a versatile commercial storyteller with a strong instinct for dialogue, pacing, and adaptation.