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The essay aims to analyze the novel ‘killing’ , written by Ju YoSeop, with view of Post-colonialism Feminism, especially the subaltern idea proposed by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The heroine of ‘killing’ , written by Ju YoSeop, showed up as a prostitute and suffered the double oppression of social squeezing and sexual abuse. Ju YoSeop images in this works how female was ravaged and suffered pain during Japanese Colonial Era. ‘killing’ is a novel which is worth being analyzed with Post-colonialism Feminism. The protagonist Wooppo is a typical figure of subaltern, or the unwashed which is defined by Spivak. Furthermore, it’s national, class and gender sensed subaltern. During Japanese Colonial Era, the protagonist suffered lots of pain from Japanese pillage, and belongs to offspring of subaltern peasant in view of social class. She is a member of the vulnerable female group in the male-centralized society, who is prostitute to be excluded everywhere and Diaspora female. The great unwashed in works of Ju YoSeop, in view of subaltern, either dwelled and worked for others, or lived a vagrant life in a foreign country as lower-class workers. Korean people in Japanese Colonial era lived in national and class oppression, especially the female had to suffer sexism, which lead a miserable life to them. At the end, Wooppo made her decision to kill people under multiple oppression. In view of Post- colonialism, her killing behavior can be regarded as a strategy of liberation from the oppression and constraint to her.