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'Please Look After Mom' to be made into US TV series

  • Published : Oct 31, 2018 - 09:56
  • Updated : Oct 31, 2018 - 09:56

South Korean bestseller "Please Look After Mom" by novelist Shin Kyung-sook will be made into a US television series, her agency said Tuesday.

KL Management said the author has signed a deal with "Blue Jar Pictures" for the production.

"This is the first case where a US TV series is being made based on a South Korean novel," it said in a statement. "It takes on extra meaning in that it's been 10 years since the first edition of the novel was published in October 2008."

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South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-sook. (Yonhap)
Details of the production have yet to be determined.

Upon publication, the book became an instant bestseller with its heartbreaking story of a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease and her family who are haunted by her disappearance.

The book was listed as South Korea's most-read book for the ten years ending March 2016, according to the country's biggest bookseller, Kyobo Book Centre. Shin was the first Korean winner of the Man Asia Literary Prize in 2011 for the novel.

More than 2.1 million copies have been sold in South Korea since its publication and it has been published in 36 nations.

(Yonhap)