Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

I am not sure what keeps drawing me to read books about women's lives in South Korea, but it's genuinely fascinating. I don't think there's single other developed "first-world" country that has so much woman hate embedded into it. In my opinion, not even Japan can measure up to it. There's just something incredibly vile and rotten about this country and the way it's presented to us, to the rest of the world.

Anyway, this book is about A Woman. But really, she is just any woman. Her experience is the average korean female experience. And this is a book dedicated to that experience. I loved the fact that this book has a ton of footnotes dedicated to providing "sources" for all the things Jiyoung went through.

I chose to display the croatian book cover because that's the one I saw in the bookstore when I visited it this winter and it really stuck out to me. It's a woodcut by Edvard Munch, called "Two Women on the Shore". I think it's very appropriate for this book.

Fun fact, a movie adaption was made in 2018 and the lead female actor received a ton of backlash for it. Female kpop stars that admitted to reading the book received harassment from their male fans... Simply for a book that presents you the average womans life. Nothing more, nothing less.