A movie adaptation of the bestselling novel that triggered a fierce sexism battle in South Korea was released on Wednesday.
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The novel, called Kyên Ji-young, Born 1982 was published in năm 2016 and sold more than a million copies.
It tells the story of an ordinary 30-something Korean woman juggling work và family, and the gender discrimination she faces at each phase of her life.
The book was hailed by some as one of the most important feminist novels in Korean - but led khổng lồ an outcry from anti-feminists in the country.
Klặng Ji-young is one of the most comtháng Korean names of the generation, & thus represents any Korean woman.
The book, written by Cho Nam-joo, a television scriptwriter, tells her story from birth khổng lồ motherhood from the perspective of her male psychiatrist.
When she is born, into a typical patriarchal family, her mother apologises to lớn her mother-in-law for having a girl.
As she goes to lớn school, gets a job, gets married & has a baby, Ji-young faces deep-rooted gender discrimination at every stage.
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Although South Korea is economically one of the most advanced countries in Asia, it remains socially conservative sầu.
So much so, that female singers and actresses who said they read the book were attacked and bullied online.
Those who criticise the book say it presents distorted views, is highly subjective, & makes negative sầu, sexist generalisations against men.
The male characters, they say, are portrayed as either actively or passively endorsing a culture of discrimination against women. Critics also argue it aggravates gender conflicts.
Actress Jung Yu-mày, who was cast as the lead, got thousands of hate comments on her Instagram in just a day; there was a petition asking the president not to lớn allow the release of the movie; & people flocked to web portals to lớn give bad ratings, even before the film was released.
Asked why the novel resonated so strongly with Korean women, Lee Na-young, sociology professor at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, told the padinno.com the "timing
It came out in autumn năm nhâm thìn. Months earlier, a young woman was murdered near Gangnam giới metro station in Seoul in a hate crime.
The murderer testified in court that "he had been ignored by women a lot and couldn't bear it anymore so committed the crime".
This incident - along with sexual violence accusations against key figures in literature & the entertainment industry - were considered by many as the key triggers behind the massive sầu #metoo movement that took over the country in 2018.
"The book is not about someone special or a particularly miserable woman, but it's about any woman," Prof Lee said.
"It follows Kyên ổn Ji-young's life cycle & along the way one detects discrimination, exclusion và violence. And it hurts."
Prof Lee said the feminist movement in South Korea following the Gangphái mạnh murder was also led by "regular women".
"They're not women's rights activists but simply women who sympathise with the victyên ổn," she said.
"First they mourned for her. And then they identified with her, thinking they too are in danger
"And