In “Kim Ji Young, born in 1982” by Nam-ju Cho, portrays a woman’s struggle living in Korea by describing the life of Kim Ji Young. The story starts off as her telling her psychiatrist about her life growing up as one of the many Korean women in Korea. Each chapter, she describes situations in which she was discriminated against. In elementary school, when a boy in her class teased Ji Young, her homeroom teacher simply said: "It’s because he likes you, you should understand it." (39) In middle school, the teachers have always forced harsher restrictions on girls in terms of uniforms and clothing. In high school, Ji-young went to a school located a little far away from home. One day, the boy who used to sit right behind her followed her late
