Nam-Joo provides factual context to many scenes within the story. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is more than just a novel with certain themes.
As Jones’s downfall became a story about interrogating and undermining abusive patriarchal power, Nam-Joo’s novel self-consciously exists within that paradigm, too. And while some men are beginning to understand there is an issue of inequality, many still don’t understand the impact of their own innate assumptions and prejudices. One senses from the last chapter of the novel, which acts as a coda, that the author consciously understands that her story is part of an emerging feminist push-back in South Korea. It's the first Korean novel to break one million sales and it has been translated into eighteen languages.
KKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is about misogyny, the roles allocated women and the culture of sexism in South Korean society.
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