Three people live in Doosan Apartment in Guro-dong. Me, mom, and my grandfather. Even though it has been 12 years since dad died, we are still living under the same roof. I thought it was because of the financial situation that we could not move out of grandfather’s house. But when I found out that mom already had enough money to get a house, I became confused. Why didn’t mom move out from the “x-world” when she could? From a marriage that didn’t work out well, to a father-in-law with a temper. Why has she been enduring it, unchanging, for all the time I had witnessed her life to become a woman against marriage? One day when my anxiousness was at its peak, grandfather suggested that we live separately. Mom, reluctant to leave Guro-dong that she’d been living in for 20 years and her marriage life, will she be able to find herself and move out well?

In Korea, every woman is imposed with three roles upon marriage: a daughter-in-law as good as a biological one, an obedient wife, and a friend-like mother. My mom performed her tasks without complaining, and watching her while growing up made me become a woman who loathed marriage. Mom represented the typical motherhood in Korea, a mother who willingly makes sacrifice for the family. However, what she faced in return was a cruel reality of which forced her to move out from the house she had lived in for twenty years. I, having wanted to escape from my grandfather's house for a long time, became curious. What kept mom from moving out herself? Why was she trying to get me married, when she wasn't happy herself? I wanted to talk about the meaning of marriage and family in a woman's life, while following on the life of a woman who lost herself in marriage.

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