![]() The relationship becomes complicated as their contrasting backgrounds and ambitions clash. He also becomes entranced by Namin and starts dating her. In between is Sunam, who desperately wants to climb the school’s social ladder by becoming a member of the Circle, a campus secret society. But for her friend Namin, the daughter of street-food vendors, it is everything, though not for purely materialistic reasons. For Jisun, the daughter of one of the country’s richest tycoons, this life of privilege is exactly what she hates. Graduation means an almost guaranteed life of lucrative employment, connections and advancement. Namin, Jisun and Sunam are students at the prestigious Seoul National University, the best school in the nation. ![]() This is the turbulent backdrop against which Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz takes place. Just a few decades ago in the late seventies, it was relatively poor and ruled by a harsh authoritarian regime desperate to catch up with the West while cracking down on any form of public dissent. South Korea was not always the prosperous, democratic country it is now. ![]()
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