Farzah Draki

And then she gets married and then kind of there's pressure to have a child and even her birth is incredibly traumatic.

And then once she does have a child, you know, later she's forced to

Quit.

There's another scene where she's in the park with her child and there are other, there are like three other men in the park and they're on their lunch break.

They're businessmen and they call her a mum roach.

And that is also another tipping point for her.

Yeah, you're right.

It definitely does get a little bit exhausting and it is sort of all spelt out in a matter-of-fact way.

I think the other thing to point out is that the book is peppered with statistics and facts and so pointing out things like South Korea has one of the highest pay gaps in the world.

It's something like 30% less than the OECD average.

I think it's 64% and the average is something like 83%.

So it's kind of things like that that sort of, I guess, back up this person's perspective.

And the author, she's a screenwriter herself and I think she talks a little bit about how the book was semi-based on her experiences of motherhood.

So as you're reading it, it's hard work but it's also the nature of their lives and I think that's why it's...

A, resonated with so many women in South Korea and why it's sold so many copies and been translated into so many languages.

But B, it has created an incredible backlash as well.

I think, you know, there was a film made from the book and I read some news stories where couples who were going to see the film were breaking up.

over the content of what was being described.

So it's a public service announcement, essentially.

Even some of the K-pop stars who mentioned the film or posted about it received incredible hate online and the actors in the film received incredible hate.