Lit in Translation

아버지가 되어주오

Abeojiga doeeojuo

“Be My Father” (title translated by AI)

Chun Woon-young (천운영, born 1971)

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To the daughter, her father was nothing but a man of insults and blows, and her mother's whole life a record of sacrifice and pain. The mother sees it otherwise. She took on the role of a father to her own husband, passing down the love her father once gave her, and she held close a man who could not love because no one had ever loved him. Rebuilding the world her daughter rejects, the story weighs who has the right to say what a life has meant.

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About the book

Form
Short story
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
First published
2020 by Munhak Sasang
Author's age
49 when first published