![]() 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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