The Steelmaker's Daughter
Yuni JungA Korean woman's memoir about surviving 1980s Korea through the early 2000s. Weekly episodes trace thirty years: domestic violence, gender inequality, poverty, the cost of being a woman. Stories of resilience, escape, and breaking generational cycles.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 9 months ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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EPISODE 37. ONE HUNDRED METER DASH
I imagined myself entering a building with this sign every morning in a crisp blue uniform and a blue cap. And a badge ready to flash if anyone asked.
Sometimes on the way to the bus stop for work, I’d pass a fruit cart, the kind older peo...
EPISODE 36. Honorary Retirement
November 21, 1997. The anchor announces Korea is asking the IMF for a bailout. (MBC News, via YouTube)
In 1997, Korea found itself in trouble out of nowhere, an unexpected economic crisis. Businesses were collapsing overnight, stores once...
EPISODE 35. AMERICAN DREAM
This was Julia’s mom’s main job, mending fishing nets. As tough as my father’s work at POSCO, but without the monthly paycheck or the benefits.
By the time I moved back to Pohang, my family had left Jigokdong and settled into a modest sin...
EPISODE 34. GOLDEN ROBE
Probably something like this is what Mom wanted that morning when I just couldn’t get up.
When I brought Mom to my place that evening, the same rental Sori had stayed in a few months earlier, she looked around at the sparsely furnished bed...
EPISODE 33. Déjà Vu
A typical inter-city bus terminal in the nineties. The one where I waited for Mom didn't look much different. Image from Restoration King, YouTube.
That fall, in 1996, Mr. Park’s wife gave birth to a healthy, beautiful son. Everybody at th...
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Memoirist and mother writing about survival in 1980s Korea. I grew up in Pohang, an unforgiving steel-mill town, carrying stories too heavy to tell aloud—poverty, gender, endless expectations. Now I'm finally writing them down.
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