Jeong-wook and the Mother were based on real-life individuals (not famous, though) whose mother/son relationships were, to put it mildly, unsettling and obsessive. The Mother is a composite of two people. One of them was a client at the English language institute where I was working. She was consistently dissatisfied and would give my co-workers a hard …
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