5/18/2023 0 Comments Cho nam joo booksIt may not be a total misery, but it is not truly happy either. The outside world keeps telling you your life is good. A year after Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 was published, the #MeToo movement gripped the world and suddenly, the book's innate criticism of the stringently patriarchal culture of South Korea ignited.Īs Cho summed up in an interview with the Financial Times in January, women have long had to suffer without complaint in the country: ' You are happy, as a mother, because you raise your pretty daughter who looks just like you. Why the fuss? Well, in the novel Cho tells the simple but deeply resonate story of a working woman who enters her thirties, gets married, gives up her job and has a baby – before having a nervous breakdown. The then-President of South Korea was sent a copy and, once released as a film, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 sparked national protest, marriage breakdowns and even plans for a mercifully never-made response from men's rights activists called Kim Ji-hoon Born 1990. Kim Ji-young, Born 1982was published in 2016 by then-little known South Korean author Cho Nam-joo, and became a literary sensation. And we don't just mean it dominated middle-class dinner party conversations for a few months, either.
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