Shoko’s Smile

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Shoko’s Smile

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Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/shoko%E2%80%99s-smile
Journal: Otago Daily Times Online News
Issued Date: November 22, 2021
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
City: -
Book: Shoko's Smile
Writer: Choi Eunyoung
Translator: Sung Ryu

About the Author

Choi Eunyoung
Birth : 1984 ~ Unknown
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Eunyoung
Family Name : Choi
Korean Name : 최은영
ISNI : 000000047928130X
Works : 20

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English(English)

Choi Eunyoung is an award-winning South Korean writer, concentrating on the lives of urban women in the contemporary Korean world, where the traditions of the past, few of which were advantageous for women, are being shattered by the fast pace of change. For example, Choi gives a voice to older, often illiterate, women from the working class whose social function was to marry, give birth to sons and to obey the dictates of their mother-in-law. Their grandchildren are now educated, many living and working outside Korea, unwilling to follow the hierarchies that curtailed the freedom of their grandmothers and even of their own mothers. The stories range across the history of Korea, from the occupation by Japan, 1910-1945, to the anti-communist trials of radicals in 1975, when young South Koreans were imprisoned and tortured, only acquitted in 2007, and the tragedy of 2014, when 304 passengers, most of them school children, died after the MV Sewol sunk off Jeju on the south coast.

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