The novel "Kim Ji-young, born in 1982" became a hot topic and a best-seller novel in 2016. The novel is based on Kim Ji-young, her confession and various data supporting her confession. This novel was made into a movie in Korea in October of 2019. The movie shows Kim Ji-young's pain, how people around her help her, and their views as well. This reveals the plight of women as well as the young generation in our society.

"Kim Ji-young, born in 1982" tells the story of an ordinary Korean woman in her 30s struggling for her work and family, while facing gender discrimination at each phase of her life. The story centers on a housewife who becomes a stay-at-home mother and later suffers from mental illness. It depicts the everyday sexism Kim Ji-young experienced since her youth. For many, it represented the voices of women who were discriminated against and made the public interested in feminism.

The novel has become the center of the gender conflict in terms of its content, and the criticism of the work itself. So, it seemed difficult for such a book to appear in society. However, it has also become popular in China, Taiwan and Japan, and the sales of other books related to feminism have increased. 

The movie "Kim Ji-young, born in 1982" can comfort and console people suffering from similar pain, rather than raising conflicts. I think the movie can be accepted as a story of an ordinary woman and her family because it contains universal feelings that anyone emphathize with as someone's daughter or son. Also, this movie approached women's problems together with social and structural problems, so I think understanding the pain of the characters is one way to make a better society in the future.

L.L.F reporter You-Jin Kim