'Please Look After Mom': A Guilt Trip To The Big City A blockbuster Korean novel has just been translated into English, in which a mother from the country goes missing in Seoul.Fresh Air's Maureen ...

Please look after mom. By Kyung-sook Shin. Translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. Knopf. 237 pp. $24.95. Comments. A note to our readers.

Mama Mia, who knew that Koreans outstrip Italians and Jews when it comes to mother guilt! How else to explain why Please Look After Mom, a new novel by Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin, has already ...