{"id":9033798025434,"title":"Please Look After Mom Original Korean Edition","handle":"please-look-after-mom-original-korean-edition","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"170\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"168\"\u003eAs a mother, as a wife, and as a woman—what kind of life did she truly live?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"626\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"195\"\u003ePlease Look After Mom\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel by Shin Kyung-sook, portrays with heartrending beauty the lives and loves of Korean mothers. First serialized in \u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"327\"\u003eChangbi\u003c\/em\u003e from the winter of 2007 to the summer of 2008, the work received fervent attention before being published as the author’s eighth full-length novel, following \u003cem data-start=\"486\" data-end=\"493\"\u003eRijin\u003c\/em\u003e. After serialization, the manuscript was carefully revised into four parts, with an epilogue of more than one hundred pages added.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"1020\"\u003eThe story begins when a mother from the countryside goes missing in a Seoul subway station. As her family members trace her absence and reconstruct their memories, the narrative unfolds with the suspense of a detective story. A mother who had always seemed an infinite source of love suddenly becomes newly present to her family—revealed as an irreplaceable being through her disappearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1022\" data-end=\"1362\"\u003eEach chapter is told from a shifting perspective: the daughter, the son, the husband, and finally the mother herself. As the points of view change, the mother’s lifelong devotion to her family emerges vividly. 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First serialized in \u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"327\"\u003eChangbi\u003c\/em\u003e from the winter of 2007 to the summer of 2008, the work received fervent attention before being published as the author’s eighth full-length novel, following \u003cem data-start=\"486\" data-end=\"493\"\u003eRijin\u003c\/em\u003e. After serialization, the manuscript was carefully revised into four parts, with an epilogue of more than one hundred pages added.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"1020\"\u003eThe story begins when a mother from the countryside goes missing in a Seoul subway station. As her family members trace her absence and reconstruct their memories, the narrative unfolds with the suspense of a detective story. A mother who had always seemed an infinite source of love suddenly becomes newly present to her family—revealed as an irreplaceable being through her disappearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1022\" data-end=\"1362\"\u003eEach chapter is told from a shifting perspective: the daughter, the son, the husband, and finally the mother herself. As the points of view change, the mother’s lifelong devotion to her family emerges vividly. At the same time, her own existence—too often overlooked, taken for granted, or left unspoken—is revealed with subtle precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1827\"\u003eThrough these layered voices, the novel poses a fundamental question: \u003cem data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1472\"\u003eWhat does a mother truly mean to us?\u003c\/em\u003e Sad yet beautiful episodes scattered throughout the narrative remind readers of their own mothers. Though it treats the universal theme of “mother,” Shin Kyung-sook’s delicate prose and lyrical descriptions guide the story with grace, bringing to the forefront not only a mother’s life in the family, but also her existence as a woman in her own right.\u003c\/p\u003e"}