"Once a female factory worker, always a female factory worker. A saying that once you set foot in the factory there is no stepping back, wasn't something I ever understood as a 20-year-old. Then one day it struck me: there really was nothing else I can do… So we go back to the factory." Dai and HyunJung have been working in factories for 10 years since their entry into the industry in TaeGwang, GuMi at the age of 16, But they have never been permanent employees. With no savings, and all dreams and confidence fading away, they are desperate. What had made them so tenuous in life? We interviewed 15 female factory workers between the ages of 19 and 37 in a factory at GuMi.