'Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982' may be fiction, but it's full of real-life examples of South Korea's punishingly patriarchal society. And its wide success gave women license to address long-buried pain and trauma — out loud.
The book and its wide success gave women license to address long buried pain and trauma, out loud. It became part of the latest wave of Korean feminism, which erupted in the largest women's rights protests in Korean history in 2018 — and a movement to stand up against rigid beauty ideals,as well as #MeToo-driven calls for stronger prosecution of against sexual violence and domestic abuse.
Unlike the US, which fractures over race, Korea is 97 percent Korean, so gender is the primary dividing line here. The novel effectively opened many young women's eyes to sex-based discrimination for the first time.is on the bestseller table, 18-year-old Jang Si On says she didn't even realize the different roles for men and women in Korean society could be challenged.
It's so normal in South Korea — practices like women doing the tedious work of food prep and entertaining for holidays. Or the way that girls don't get the option to play team sports in grade school. Or that boys get to line up first to eat at the cafeteria. For 23-year-old Heo Soo-hyun, seeing these simple realities laid out inI always thought [the episodes in the book] were ordinary. Then I realized maybe that isn't the way things should be.
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