A review by kimkaisgf
I Hear Your Voice by Young-Ha Kim

3.0

3.25 STARS

If there is one thing Korean artists, be it film, television, or literature, know how to do—it's in their use of the social milieu of South Korea.I Hear Your Voice is about a young orphan named Jae who starts a motorbike gang with other homeless runaway youth, at least according to the back cover of the book. In reality, I Hear Your Voice is a series of vignettes held together by the characters of Donggyu and Jae, and later, the police officer. It paints a critique of the importance of status and social credit in South Korean society and how this pedestal causes many to slip through the cracks. To have no status nor social credit is undesirable, and once you're undesirable, you're invisible.