Nothing to Envy: Difference between revisions

* Dr. Kim -- A female doctor loyal to the regime. She has relatives in China.

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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: During the famine, such things as rank and background no longer matter.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Still very common in North Korea.

* [[Big Brother Is Employing You]]

* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]

* [[Crapsack World]]

* [[Chastity Couple]]: Mi-ran and Jun-sang never went beyond holding hands and kissing (occurring only after dating a few years).

* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: {{spoiler|Jun-sang}}

* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Mrs. Song and Oak-hee

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: One chapter starts with Min-ran happily working as a kindergarten teacher then goes in the declining heath and eventual disappearance of her students.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: There are two Kims, and to prevent confusion they are always addressed as Dr. Kim and Kim Hyuck (or just Hyuck).

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Though she isn't a orphan at that point, Dr. Kim is given a list of her relatives in China by her dying father in hope that she'll use it to leave.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Dr. Kim and Oak-hee left children behind in North Korea. Dr. Kim had previously lost custody of her son due to divorce.

* [[Public Execution]]: Jun-sang witnesses the execution of a man arrested for stealing.

* [[Secret Relationship]]: Mi-ran and Jun-sang, because Mi-ran's low family rank would badly affect Jun-sang's future if it became known they were involved together. Jun-sang's parents also wanted him to focus on school, not girls.

* [[Titled After the Song]]: The book is titled after a propaganda song about how great life in North Korea is because of Kim Il-sung.

* [[Worthless Foreign Degree]]: The degrees of Jun-sang, Mi-ran and Dr. Kim become useless after defection.

 

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