With a practice deeply engaged with feminism and LGBT rights issues, siren eun young jung reveals the subversive power of traditional culture, one unknown in the Korean modernization period, and provides unique perspectives and documentation of important communities. Through their long-term research projects bridging different generations of women, jung keenly addresses questions of gender as a norm of “becoming.” Their early works have examined the struggles of a younger generation of women against androcentrism and violent patriarchy and subsequent projects have addressed issues surrounding environmental change, human rights, activism, and homosexual rights. jung’s pivotal work Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project (2008–2016) engages the existing queer community in South Korea by focusing on Yeoseong Gukgeuk, an all-female traditional theater genre existing since the 1950s, after the Korean War. The ongoing project tells an empowering story of gender-becoming in the mid-20th century. Unveiling traditional yet subversive narratives that existed during the transitional period of a country moving towards a modern society and challenging the myth of Korean “andro-modernization” achieved by a rapid masculinism of national development.