Another Person: a dark and Gothic campus novel from one of South Korea’s most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Cho Nam-joo and I May Destroy You

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I would’ve liked the main character’s initial story to have been explored a bit more, with a neater tie in to the latter half of the novel. The company man –which dominated the twentieth Century –is best defined as someone whose identity is impregnated with the stamp the firm wants to give him.

I was spending today, like every other day, alone at home, reading articles and comments written about me. For the person is no longer owned by a company but by something worse: the idea that he needs to be employable. Attorney (or federal prosecutor) - A lawyer appointed by the President in each judicial district to prosecute and defend cases for the federal government. Although overall I thought this was flawed and frequently overly ambitious, it could also be tense, atmospheric and unexpectedly moving, a powerful plea for solidarity and collective action. The Sheikh and his retinue fell in love with Bob’s manners, the fact that Bob never had a drop of alcohol in his life, has an expertise in fermented yoghurt drinks, and told him that money was no object.So cursing today is a status symbol, just as oligarchs in Moscow wear blue jeans at special events to signal their power. It is much easier to do business with the owner of the business than some employee who is likely to lose his job next year; likewise it is easier to trust the word an autocrat than a fragile elected official. file - To place a paper in the official custody of the clerk of court to enter into the files or records of a case. judgment - The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit. Its often ironic that when a crime is done, the one who is in on the receiving end was the one more affected by the ones inflicted on it.

I said earlier that I switched firms away from the proto-company man and I was explicitly told that my employment would terminate the minute I ceased to meet the P/L target. Someone else" is more usual than "another person", and "another person" tends to be more objectifying. After reading a Twitter comment that seems to be too specific to come from a stranger, she gets back to Anjin, a small city where she studied, to face the author.It paces like a thriller, draws theories like a mystery, but vibrates with current affairs: the shadow pandemic of sexual assault.

And progressively, as with corporations, you start gathering people with minimal courage –and selected because they don’t have courage, as with a regular corporation. Total freedom is also a very, very bad thing for you if you have a firm to run, so this chapter is about the question of employees and the nature of the firm and other institutions. Jina’s decision to publicise her experiences has made her the focus of a virulent, online hate campaign and harassment from former managers and co-workers.I quite liked this read, especially how the author wrote the characters to be “imperfect” sexual violence survivors. Lydia was curious when the face appeared in the third-story window, but she hesitated before making her way upstairs. The Legal Terms Glossary defines over 100 of the most common legal terms in easy-to-understand language. damages - Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.

My friend Rory Sutherland (the same Rory) explained that some more intelligent company people had the strategy of cursing while talking to journalists in a way to signal that they were conveying the truth, not reciting some company mantra”. At first Jina, Yuri, and the other women, who surface in the novel appear to represent individual trauma resulting from emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse but as this unfolds it’s clear it’s actually a broader exploration of a damaged and damaging society. Overall, this book might not be for everyone, but its a book that spoke on the violence that has been done to women and how it had affected the victims longer than what the perpretors remembers. reporter - Makes a record of court proceedings, prepares a transcript, and publishes the court's opinions or decisions.

voir dire - The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court.