maincharacter in novel Kim Ji Young, Born 1982. This research was conducted by applying the textual analysis method. The data source is taken from the novel by Cho Nam Joo, entitled Kim Ji Young, Born 1982 which was translated into English by Jamie Chang. This study used the theory of Gender Inequality by Sylvia Walby
As it seems in “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982”, a film that tried to speak up about gender issue that has been happened in South Korea. The analysis uses three levels, first the level of reality
Like. “Jiyoung grew up being told to be cautious, to dress conservatively, to be “ladylike.”. That it’s your job to avoid dangerous places, times of day and people. It’s your fault for not noticing and not avoiding.”. ― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. 2016, “ Kim Ji-young, Born 1982” has become a bestseller with millions of copies so ld.South Korean female scholar Kim Yeo n-joo commented on the bo okI hated reading Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, The debut novel by Cho Nam-Joo, which is the opposite of saying that I hated the book itselfit laid bare my own Korean childhood — and, let’s face it, my Western adulthood too — forcing me to confront traumatic experiences that I’d tried to chalk up as nothing out of the ordinary.
By Kim Boram. SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) -- In "Kim Ji-young, Born 1982," a film adaptation of the best-selling feminist novel of the same title, actress Jung Yu-mi plays an ordinary 37-year old woman living in South Korea in 2019. Ji-young is an ordinary housewife and mother of a child who has to struggle all day to do chores and take care of her zHH0w.