2026, Seoul. 31-Year-old Jiang Hairen thought that as long as he worked hard, he could get everything - a good job, a good partner, and a stable life. But when she was about to be promoted, her promotion was snatched away by a more junior male colleague; her boyfriend of three years said in an understatement that he "didn't want to get married"; the rent in Seoul increased to half of her salary; and her mother's calls urging her to get married made her afraid to even answer the phone on weekends. These "should have" things are slipping from her hands one by one.
Until she received a deepfake photo of herself and was accurately targeted by a stranger through digital violence. Calling the police to no avail, the company persuaded me to quit, and society stared at me like needles.
When giving in became inertia and silence was regarded as acquiescence, Jiang Hairen finally understood: her dilemma was never a personal failure, but the daily life of millions of Korean women. She chose to go public and not bend down anymore. This is not a story of counterattack, but the awakening of a person and the echo of a generation.
The sea is wide. She started walking towards the sea.
Purpose: To present the daily survival picture of thirty-generation Korean women under multiple social structures such as workplace discrimination, marriage and childbearing pressure, housing crisis, and digital sex crimes.