Cho Young-myoung was born in 1991. After working as a producer for TV entertainment shows, she entered the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul to study film. Her short film 202 201 (2021) won the Grand Prize at the Florence International Film Festival as well as the Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, and her subsequent film Peek (2022) was invited to many film festivals, including the San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival and the Busan International Short Film Festival.