The celebrity endorsement has a lot of impact. Like a bestseller, but we say K-pop stars are idols. We have a newly coined word in Korea: “idol-seller”. What was the effect – and are you a K-pop fan? Several K-pop stars, such as Soo-young of Girls’ Generation and RM of BTS, have praised the book.
When my novel was made into a film, the director said that she felt like the book has a life of its own, and I agree! It is more progressive and brave than I am.
The novel has sold millions of copies and been translated into 18 languages. But as I say in the book, there was this trend where women would get an abortion if they were pregnant with a girl – which peaked during the 1980s and early 90s. Hearing about that pact between my uncle and my dad, I was really surprised. It was more common in my mum’s generation. Was it a common practice that a daughter and a son might be swapped? But if I were born as a son, I think I wouldn’t have been able to understand this life, the world that I live in, in the same way – living as a person on the weaker side, we see the world a lot more broadly. As long as I was a woman, it didn’t matter whether I was living with my uncle or my dad. How does it feel to know you might have been raised in a different family?Īctually, that didn’t matter to me. You’ve said that your father and uncle struck a deal before you were born: had you been a boy, your uncle - who already had five daughters – would have taken you as his own. Although change is slow, I believe that we will not go backwards. Recently, it was ruled that abortion being a crime was unconstitutional. Women have been protesting and petitioning they have begun to gather in solidarity. Recently in the news, there was an applicant who couldn’t get a job because the public officials gave her a lower score just because she was female. There is still sexual abuse and discrimination. ĭo you see things changing – or do young women face the same problems today? Then a female prosecutor, Seo Ji-hyeon, participated in the #MeToo movement, revealing what she had experienced. People started to speak about the horrors and threats women have felt – which had not been discussed earlier. In May 2016, a woman was murdered at Gangnam station, and in October that year there were a lot of sexual harassment scandals in various areas of society, including literary circles and the arts. What was the #MeToo movement like in South Korea?
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