Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation:
- At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother.
- In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime.
- In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night.
- In university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor.
- In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager.
- At home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care of her husband and her baby.
Kim Ji-young is depressed.
Kim Ji-young has started acting out.
Kim Ji-young is her own woman.
Kim Ji-young is insane.
Kim Ji-young is sent by her husband to a psychiatrist. This is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea.
[Read: 21 November 2022]