일 년

Jisu is in her third year at a company and spends her days on a building site where a wind farm is about to open, getting everything ready for the ceremony. Dahui, an intern on a temporary contract who is just as old as Jisu, becomes her assistant because she speaks Chinese. Sharing a car on the daily drive out and back, the two talk more openly than either has with anyone else, and something passes between them that exists only in those conversations. Yet one of them has a permanent post and the other does not, and the difference is never far away. Told from years later, the story weighs what that year meant to both women, in a world where secure work is scarce.

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About the book

Form

Short story

First published

2018 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

34 when first published