Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2020

ISBN-13: 9781487007010

<p><b>The runaway bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally, <i>Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 </i>is the most important book to have come out of South Korea since Han Kang’s <i>The Vegetarian.</i></b></p><p>Kim Jiyoung is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s.<br/>Kim Jiyoung is representative of her generation:</p><p>At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother.<br/>In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime.<br/>In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night.<br/>In university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor.<br/>In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager.<br/>At home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care of her husband and her baby.<br/>Kim Jiyoung is depressed.<br/>Kim Jiyoung has started to act out.<br/>Kim Jiyoung is her own woman.<br/>Kim Jiyoung is insane. </p><p>Kim Jiyoung’s husband sends her to see a psychiatrist.<br/>This is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea.</p>