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The Steelmaker's Daughter

Yuni Jung

A 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.

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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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EPISODE 32. TRAIN TICKET

1990s Daejeon station. This is where I picked up Sori and saw her off. Image from YouTube Restoration King.

Back in the nineties, most students dreamed of landing a job at major conglomerates like Samsung, Daewoo, or Hyundai. But it was n...

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EPISODE 31. TENT BAR

It was a place like this, a tent bar, where four of us told each other we still had our future, we were not done yet.

“Have that fucking owner come here right now!”

It was an ordinary afternoon at my new, swanky academy. I was sitting in...

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EPISODE 30 HAGWON

A typical classroom setting in a typical English academy. A place I never thought I’d work.

By the winter of 1995, with graduation looming, reality sank in: I wasn’t a tour guide. I had no particular job prospects. I was just one of hundre...

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EPISODE 29. TOUR GUIDE II

A page from a group tour booklet. Every travel agency I interviewed at had stacks of these.

On a bright weekday afternoon in November 1994, I’d just arrived at my first job interview at one of the travel agencies in downtown Daejeon. For t...

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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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