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Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by other women from her life, past and present . by Cho Nam-JoI knew that the Republic of Korea South Korea and India celebrate Independence Day on the 15th of August. What I didn’t know was how similar the cultures of these two countries were until I read Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. This million-copy bestseller, written by Cho Nam-Joo, translated into English by Jamie Chang with audiobook narration by Jamie Parker deserves it’s tremendous success and more. The cover with a sketch of a face framed by black hair but no features laid atop a city skyline, highlights by its absence, the commonplace life of its eponymous protagonist, Kim Jiyoung in urban South Korea. Like the simple cover, it is a simple story, simply told. What makes it special, is the way it draws in readers through its matter of fact telling of a story that plays out in every country that is burdened by patriarchy. Jiyoung, a young woman in Seoul starts showing signs of mental imbalance in the autumn of 2015, a year after the birth of her daughter. At first it seems odd to find an educated, modern young woman falling apart despite a comfortable, happily married family life but as the story unfolds, the reasons become apparent. It isn’t always one moment of horrific trauma that makes people crack but the cumulative effects of a lifetime of being at the receiving end of small, thoughtless aggressions, something that girls in Korea and world over routinely face, a series of episodes that can ultimately destroy a person’s well-being. Jiyoung, the quiet, second daughter born in a traditional family where the father goes out to work while her mother stays home, observes and quickly normalises her life in a culture that prefers male children. While she is expected to share everything from a blanket to a treat with her sister, her much-younger brother gets the best portions of food, better clothes, and of course, more attention from their parents and grandmother. “It didn’t occur to the child Jiyoung that her brother was receiving special treatment, and so she wasn’t even jealous. That’s how it had always been.”As we follow Jiyoung’s growth through her childhood years 1982-19940, adolescence 1995-200, early adulthood 2001-2011, and marriage 2012-2015, through ordinary episodes of school and workplace bullying, family expectations before and after marriage, we uncover the myriad ways in which a person’s soul can be effaced. The unfolding of the systematic effects of patriarchy is so gradual that it doesn’t come across as punitive or intentional. It is revealed for what it is, an insidious state of being . Jiyoung’s father and later, her husband, appear to be mild-mannered men of not much consequence. It is the women who are the complicit perpetrators of patriarchy. Jiyoung’s paternal grandmother, who despite her hard life with four sons and an incompetent husband a man with a fair complexion and soft hands, who never worked a day in his life doesn’t resent her him because he didn’t sleep around or hit her. Even though three of her four sons turn out to be ungrateful, her heartfelt wish for the only daughter-in-law, Jiyoung’s mother, who takes care of her is “You should have a son. You must have a son. You must have at least two sons.”Jiyoung’s mother is more than just the compliant meek daughter-in-law. She is the backbone of the family, the one with business savvy and foresight who uplifts the family’s standard of living and enables her daughters but still favors her youngest child, the hardwon growth from a primarily agricultural society to an industrialised one and its impact on society provides the backdrop on which the characters grow and change, thereby enabling the transformation of the country. But they each bear the human cost of their participation in the country’s progress as it plays out in small and large ways in their own periodic intervals, the novel provides footnotes for reference to relevant statistics on government policies and other measures. These helpful asides are not mere digressions. They add veracity to the story of one fictional protagonist who represents her generation. The introduction in Korea of family planning’, a government sanctioned measure to limit the expanding population when combined with easy access to ultra-sound technology leads to sex-selective abortions and an alarmingly skewed gender ratio. The short-sightedness of such programmes in cultures that favour male children and the inevitable impact that serves to further exacerbate existing problems were effortlessly portrayed through Jiyoung’s life. Whether it’s her interaction with bullies or perverts or outright chauvinists, Jiyoung’s story hits uncomfortably close to makes the story work is the clinically detached narration. I admired the absence of sentimentality that kept the story moving briskly as well as the simplicity of the prose that stayed true to its purpose of just telling the story. I first heard the audiobook and then read the print version. On both occasions, I found myself getting worked up, my short breaths fanning my anger at the way people make choices to conform to the bias of society, cleanly sidestepping responsibility for all the wrongs that follow. Even as I wrote this review, I had to stop and take deep breaths to continue. What makes the novel real is not just Jiyoung’s struggle to make her way through a world that seems to be systematically wired with landmines to trip her progress, but the fact that at several points, she comes across women who in their own limited way, try to make a difference. Whether it is a young classmate in school who decides to stand up to an unfair system that puts girls at a disadvantage or the stranger on the bus who rescues her on a dark night at a bus stop and tells her “It’s not your fault”, there are women who work within the system to uplift one woman at a time, through words or actions, however trivial they may favorite character was Jiyoung’s mother, herself a victim of a generation where female siblings willingly worked in their youth to put their brothers through school and later spent their adult life supporting their own family. With her entrepreneurial spirit and courage, she brings financial stability to her home and takes a stand to enable her daughters to have a better life than what she could do for herself. But in the end, she is a victim of her circumstances and her biases, just like the therapist who tries to piece together Jiyoung’s case in the context of his own life. The strength of the story lies both in the telling of it and in it’s conclusion that the ills of society cannot be condoned, even if it is co-opted by the majority. What it does not do is provide a neat solution, either for Jiyoung or for the reader. My opinion With translations into eighteen languages, this book should be made essential reading for girls, boys, and their parents all over the you read this book? Or come across similar books by writers from other countries? ? Drop me a note in comments. 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A combination of facts and fiction, it works to show the pressing reality of women in Korea and, at large, the world. While the author Cho Nam-joo faced huge backlash for the novella, the footnotes backing up the statistics she has used stand by her against every negative commentary regarding the story’s accuracy. Considered to be a large inspiration for the MeToo movement in South Korea following the murder of a woman at the Gangnam metro station in 2016, it’s an international bestseller and one of the first feminist writings emerging from the narrative starts with Kim Ji-young’s husband observing a gradual change in Kim Ji-young’s behaviour. This change is unusual and uncharacteristic of Ji-young. What ticked it off? While the reasons were clear to me from the very beginning, people around Ji-young are baffled. Without warning, Ji-young loses her sense of self and talks and behaves as if possessed by the spirit of other women in her life, alive or dead. A scary thing for her husband to witness. A circumstance they fail to unravelling the patriarchy in a common woman’s life against the backdrop of a developed South Korea, Kim Ji-young Born 1982’ is a story millions of women can relate to. A combination of facts and fiction, it works to show the pressing reality of women in Korea and, at large, the world. While the author Cho Nam-joo faced huge backlash for the novella, the footnotes backing up the statistics she has used stand by her against every negative commentary regarding the story’s the reason behind the sudden change in Ji-young’s behaviour can easily be traced back to institutionalised patriarchy. The story works to cover plenty of complex yet fundamental themes and seems like a true story brought to life. After the initial observations of her husband, the narrative proceeds in the third person and talks of Ji-young’s life at different stages, at points also talking of the difficult life her mother had to lead. From Ji-young’s childhood, we can see that there was a clear distinction between the girl children and the boy in the difference in treatment was extremely normalised to the extent that it continued to be the natural cycle of everything. Both the sisters share a room because the brother needs his own space. The grandmother coddled the brother and scolded the sisters. The brother always got more, while the sisters shared everything they ever got. It was obvious the boy was loved more. It was clear he was the family’s pride even before he came into the Ji-young’s mother gave birth to the two sisters, everyone hoped the third one would be a boy. But when the mother was pregnant with her third baby, multiple factors led her to believe the third child would yet again be a girl. Out of desperation and unsolicited pressure, she aborted her third baby. Because who can explain to these people that a family with only daughters is also complete and as enriched as one with a son? Following these unfortunate circumstances, Ji-young’s mother gave birth to the family’s most adored baby boy. Every action in such a constricted family dynamic results in a natural flow of oppression. Ji-young and her sister, Kim Eun-young, constantly make sacrifices from their childhood whilst never questioning or realising why. The same goes for their mother, who had to give up her schooling and work to ensure that her brothers could go to school and be the shining stars they needed to be. Today, while her daughters have more choices, the chains of patriarchy, directly and indirectly, bind them difference in treatment was extremely normalised to the extent that it continued to be the natural cycle of everything. Both the sisters share a room because the brother needs his own space. The grandmother coddled the brother and scolded the sisters. The brother always got more, while the sisters shared everything they ever got. It was obvious the boy was loved more. It was clear he was the family’s pride even before he came into the Ji-young goes through an episode of harassment while coming home after dark from an academy far from her house, her father makes it about her rather than empathising with her daughter. Eventually, it becomes her fault because she came back late, because she goes to an academy far from home and because maybe her skirt was too short. But the perpetrator?According to decades worth of information, statements by public figures, and the family environment of millions of women, the victim is always at fault. Until recently, no one tried to question the lack of critical thinking and logic behind these accusations. Why can’t the world be made safer for women? Why isn’t the perpetrator not at fault? Why should Ji-young backtrack on her education for this? Multiple questions were left it doesn’t end here. As Ji-young reaches adulthood and starts working, we see her push as hard as she can, yet no amount of hard work can help her push past the sexist boundaries drawn by her superiors to keep their higher teams devoid of female workers who they believe will ultimately leave one day after marriage or after giving birth. A reality Ji-young experiences as Ji-young gets pregnant with her daughter, there is a clash between her and her husband. They try their best to work it out so that Ji-young can go back to work after her maternity leaves end, but circumstances ensure that she is the one to give up her career. The explanation is simple, given the gender pay gap, Ji-young can’t make as much money as her husband, and the amount she currently earns can not support the three of them. All things considered, Ji-young gives up the job she loves with a broken heart. Throughout every one, her husband presents himself as someone who understands, someone who wants to help but unsurprisingly fails to do so. After a point, Ji-young’s suffering is something she finds herself unable to share. When her friend from work visits her, the current climate of the workplace is something hard to read without feeling uncomfortable. This part talks of the spycam situation in most of Asia and its impact on the in our world, society somehow finds a way to blame this on women as well. In the story, the workers’ only female superior fights alongside all the women of the office. The heads want to make the happenings non-existent and quiet down the this, the female boss and multiple women workers leave the company. While Ji-young is partly relieved that she wasn’t a part of the company during this, her heart aches for the trouble women have to go through to be independent and make a name for now, her daughter is growing well and healthy, but in her heart Ji-young is lonely. She feels a lack of purpose in her life. The insults of people take a toll on her, but there is a lack of understanding from those around her because, traditionally, you are not supposed to talk about these things. You suffer quietly because that’s how it everyone seems to collectively not understand that Ji-young’s condition’ is a by-product of patriarchy’s centuries worth of oppression. Any community that has been historically oppressed and has been made to feel weak and without a voice struggles to find a way out of the systemic oppression in their life. Ji-young is lonely and struggling. No one is willing to understand what she wants, yet they claim to know what’s best for she visits a psychiatrist, a man, he narrates his own wife’s story, who gave up her career after birth. A maths genius who now finds joy in solving her young son’s maths workbooks because that is the only thing she can control. The psychiatrist feels unhappy with his wife’s state and says he understands what Ji-young is going empathetic modern man? Yet in the next breath, he says how female workers leaving because of pregnancy and motherhood need to be replaced by someone more permanent, aka, a man. The psychiatrist truly comes full he wants to do something for his wife, he can not do it. Moreover, he practices the same patterns that became the barrier in his wife’s life in the first place. The story ends in a full circle presenting an end with the implication that Ji-young’s life will not get read Inside The Exploding Anti-Feminist Movement Of South KoreaThe movie adaptation of the book of the same title and the actors in the movie faced a huge backlash as well. Though slightly different from the novella, the movie does pierce every watcher’s heart. The movie provides hope that the novella doesn’t through its ending, yet both versions depict the feelings and unfortunate events women go through in South Korea and in the world. A great read, the novella’s strong stand against the institutionalised patriarchy in South Korea is read K-Pop Suicides Sparks South Korean Women’s Protest Against FemicideFeatured image source Youtube Summary One of Korea’s best-selling novels is a portrait of systemic discrimination that through its repeated ordinariness becomes something extraordinary. Originally released in its native South Korea in 2016, Cho Nam-Joo’s book shot to fame in South Korea when floor leader of the Justice Party’s Roh Hoe-chan gifted the book to President Moon Jae-in. The book, which concerns a stay-at-home mother with depression, was inscribed with a message that read “Please embrace Kim Ji-young Born ’82.'” The film adaptation of KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN 1982 82년생 김지영 arrives in a timely fashion as the global MeToo movement shares similar true tales of everyday discrimination. Most descriptions will tell you that the titular Kim Ji-Young Jung Yu-Mi is an ordinary woman in her 30s who starts experiencing signs of being someone else. Of course, that spooky sounding plotline speaks more to the otherness’ she has been experiencing her whole life as a woman in Korea. This film signals the feature directorial debut of actor Kim Do-young, perhaps best known for roles in films like The Righteous Thief 2009. In translating the novel to the screen, she and co-writer Yoo Young-ah On Your Wedding Day have managed work Cho’s vignettes into a single narrative while maintaining the cumulative impact of institutionalised sexism. From dealing with groping as a schoolgirl to familial and societal expectations of Ji-young as a mother, her wants and needs have consistently been secondary to those of her brother, husband, and father. Ostensibly about indoctrinated misogyny in South Korea, there’s a universality to Ji-young’s experience. Following the book’s structure of a life as a case study, albeit without the bookends of a male doctor analysing her experience, Ji-young’s life might be viewed by the men in her life extraordinary but the truth is that it’s the cumulative and systemic micro and let’s face it, macro aggressions that determine her fate. Early in the film, Ji-young overhears someone referring to her coffee break with child in tow as a “comfortable life,” a viewpoint shared by many men in her circle. Her father gets easily outraged by any woman’s role that is not child-rearing, while Ji-young’s mother-in-law is furious that her return to work might jeopardise her own son’s career. Jung Yu-Mi – known for her roles in Oki’s Movie, Train to Busan and Psychokinesis – delivers a powerfully understated and award-winning performance. Her stoicism in the face of prosaic prejudice gives added weight to the film. Equally fierce is Ji-young’s mother, who’s vocal opposition to the men in their lives leads to a semi-breakdown on screen. The men, of course, stand about impotent in the face of emotion. When the book and film were released in Korea, headlines spoke of it increasing tensions in the local market and couples breaking up over it. The messaging is not necessarily subtle, but neither is the discrimination against women. It’s precisely the ordinariness of these typically male viewpoints that, when taken together in a single document such as this, demonstrate how stacked the system is against career-minded women. Yet it would also be very easy to dismiss this as a Korean problem, and if this timely tale shows us anything it’s that society has a collective culpability in perpetuating it or a responsibility to instigate change. 2019 South Korean DIRECTOR Kim Do-young WRITER Kim Do-young, Yoo Young-Ah CAST Jung Yu-mi, Gong Yoo, Kim Mi-kyeong DISTRIBUTOR Little Monster Entertainment/Korean Film Festival in Australia AUS RUNNING TIME 120 minutes RELEASE DATE 29 October – 5 November 2020 KOFFIA Read more coverage of South Korean cinema from the silent era to festivals and other contemporary releases. Plus go beyond Korea with more film from Asia in Focus. About The Author

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