Tracing the Trauma of Motherhood: A Reading of Please Look after Mother This article explores the question of what it means to be a mother. So-nyo, the mothers figure in the novel, Please Look after Mother is a wife and a mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. The aim and objective of the paper is an analysis and interpretation of the textual and conceptual essence of the ‘Trauma of a mother’s Psyche’ in the novel of Kyung-sook shin, a most prominent Korean writer. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved with that experience. The novel tracks down the mother’s life of self sacrifice, which coincides with Korea’s dramatic shift from a pre-modern to post modern society, and in the course has restored a place for motherhood in the Korean psyche. This is a trauma of one mother that reveals it to be the trauma of all our mothers: about her triumphs and disappointmen...