This event is for Asia Society Members only. Reviews: The New York Times, The Guardian, Asian Review of Books This is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea. Kim Jiyoung’s husband sends her to see a psychiatrist. In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager.Īt home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care of her husband and her baby. In university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. Kim Jiyoung is representative of her generation:Īt home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. Kim Jiyoung is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. This time we will read the Korean "runaway bestseller" Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo.Ībout Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (publisher's description): This event is for Asia Society Members only. How to become a member? Learn More
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