Korean feminist writers follow a trail blazed by K-pop stars
She is among the many Japanese readers—especially women—embracing South Korean literature. Translated literature in Japan was until recently mostly Western. Yet 210,000 copies of the Japanese edition of “Kim Ji-young” have been sold since its publication in 2018. Three times as many Korean books were translated into Japanese in 2021 as in 2019.
Saito Mariko, who translated “Kim Ji-young”, reckons such books encourage Japanese women to wear “feminist glasses”. Yano Marika, another Japanese fan, suggests Japanese women “haven’t quite processed” their experience of male chauvinism. Her reading of Korean books such as “My Crazy Feminist Girlfriend”, a novel, and “Reclaim the Language”, an essay on misogyny, helped her do so: “I felt sad and infuriated.
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