easy read, finished this in one sitting. author’s note in the end is the most interesting part in my opinion, the walking dead imagery is SPOT ON. maybe because it was written from the perspective of an average korean man, but i found this book to be very underwhelming. considering the amount of favorable reviews this book got from both the korean and japanese audience that got me to read this book in the first place, i expected the story to touch more on complex feminist issues. but they are very introductory (marriage, lookism, gender roles in a workplace, etc) and i found myself rolling my eyes reading some parts. however, there are some parts that highlights a more complicated and nuanced aspect of feminism. the main character meets his girlfriend’s older sister, and she is a successful working mother, who is an employee at one of the biggest companies in south korea. the girlfriend tells the main character that she moved out because her sister forces her and her mother to perform unpaid labor for her, like taking care of her children while she’s at work. this exposes the covert misogyny and hierarchy that so-called girlboss feminism upholds, and i found myself being amused by how well this translates into text. this was my second time reading a korean book (the first time being “kim jo-young, born 1982”) and as a japanese woman i keep sympathizing a lot with women depicted in the story. i am interested in reading more korean books and i’m looking forward to it!