★Rights Sold: Complex Chinese; Japanese
★Latest novel from the winner of Hwangsanbeol Youth Literary Award and the Lee Hyoseok Literary Award!
★Recommended by Korea’s major authoritative media
★Korea’s representative online book store YES24 “Today’s book”; fiction bestseller list; readers score as high as 9.6
★Even on days when the sun does not shine, still insist on finding a small piece of sparkling light. A delightful and frank story of woman labor in the 21st century.

Soo-gyung is the breadwinner of the family. Her father Chun-shik and husband Woo-jae have a laid back and naive personality, but Soo-gyung and her mother Yeo-sook are more strong and determined. So Chun-shik and Woo-jae mostly stayed home, while Soo-gyung and Yeo-sook went out to work. Such balance was not bad at all, until that day. One day, Soo-gyung successfully won a project with a new customer and the team went out for dinner to celebrate. Soo-gyung won recognition, and everybody was happy. It was just another day, not very different from another, with no one expecting that anything out of the ordinary would happen. On that day Soo-gyung woke up in a motel room. Her colleague begged that he did not have any bad intention, that Soo-gyung looked so tired, that he only brought her to the motel because she fell asleep. However, traces of the Zolpidem were found from Soo-gyung. If not for the owner of the motel who found the colleague suspicious for carrying an unconscious woman to the motel room, something worse might have happened. After such a close experience of sexual assault, Soo-gyung suffers from trauma and at last decides to quit from her job.
Once Soo-gyung leaves her job and her mother Yeo-sook also quits working to take care of her daughter, no one in the five member family is making money. Woo-jae, who is the most eligible to go out and earn money faces difficulty with lack of experience and being too old to start as a newcomer.
The situation gets even worse when Soo-gyung’s niece Jun-hoo gets into a fight with Soo-gyung’s colleague. The family has no choice to use up their savings to pay for the settlement. Though the family does not blame Jun-hoo, their worries get deeper with no source of income.
Finally Soo-gyung resiliently stands up and announces to her family that they cannot go on like this. That they have to go out and earn money. Starting from Soo-gyung and Yeo-sook, the family starts one by one to transform themselves as platform workers. And gradually, they start to dream of a new beginning. Help Me Sister is a story of Soo-gyung who tries to overcome her wound and get back her daily life out of responsibility for her family, and her family and friend who tries to help Soogyung in their own way.

This book is based on the author's own experience, combined with interviews with actual people and references from various countries, to construct a very real platform labor background, so that the content is closer to reality.

Through the different lifestyles of three generations of women, the book delves into the platform industry, the reality of women's labor, and the story of family unity bound by blood and ties.

This is a novel that paints a detailed picture of poverty today, every word painfully and beautifully tingling with reality.

The author, who has captured the corner scenery of The Times in her previous works, will also show the reality of women's labor in vivid and delicate language in this novel. With frank and humorous strokes, he vividly depicts the reality of poverty from the bottom of society with no outlet.

Lee Seo-su

was born in Seoul in 1983, having graduated from Dankook University Department of Law. She debuted through her short story “Relief, Vintage or Salvation?” in the 2014 Dong-a Ilbo Annual Spring Literary Contest. She received the 6th Hwangsanbeol Youth Literary Award for her novel Your 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds in 2020.