Mi-hee is Mi-ran’s oldest sister, a talented singer who nonetheless struggled to use her talents due to their family’s beulsun, or tainted blood. Mi-hee was already married with children when Mi-ran, Sok-ju, So-hee, and their mother defected in 1998; she did not travel with them, and she was later imprisoned in a labor camp as retribution for their crimes. As of the time of Nothing to Envy’s publication in 2009, Mi-hee and her sister Mi-sook were presumed dead.
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Mi-hee Character Timeline in Nothing to Envy
The timeline below shows where the character Mi-hee appears in Nothing to Envy. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
As Mi-ran watched her sister Mi-hee face rejection after rejection from specialized high schools, Mi-ran began to worry about her own...
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Chapter 20
...concrete. She learned that six months after she and her family defected, her older sisters Mi-hee and Mi-sook were taken away to labor camps in the middle of the night. Though...
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