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Hello Baby

Hello Baby scrap

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  • Author

    Kim Eui-kyung김의경

  • Publisher

    EunHaeng NaMu Publishing은행나무

  • Year Published

    2023-03

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 순수소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

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Description 작품 소개

Despite the fact that South Korea has the lowest birthrate in the world, subfertility clinic Baby Angel Hospital is full of women who long to have a baby. Six women, all in their 30s and 40s, meet at the clinic and eventually create a group chat room named “Hello Baby” to share information and support each other. For two years, the six women each with different background and hardship, bond through group chat, sharing one another’s strenuous clinic process and various circumstances which make it even harder for them to have a baby.


On Lunar New Year holiday of 2021, one of the chat room members Jung-hyo, who disappeared for a year after declaring that she does not want IVF treatment any more, announces to the group that she has given birth to a baby. The women are envious yet happy for her, as all of them have experienced and understand the longing and desperation that Jung-hyo had been through to meet her baby. To congratulate Jung-hyo, they decide to all gather at Jung-hyo’s home. However, the evening’s gathering leads to an unexpected turn.


The novel focuses on the different stories of the six women and those around them, highlighting the desperate yearning, efforts, despair, and hope behind subfertility treatments that numerous women goes through, but is hidden behind the joy of pregnancy.

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Author Bio 작가 소개

As a member of the "Wage Realism" group, she began her literary career in 2014 when her work Youth Bankruptcy won the Korean Economic Daily New Year’s Literary Contest for Young Writers.

Translator`s Expectations 기대평

There are no expectations.

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