Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?
Kim Young-haTags: inspirational introspection korea kim korean young-ha
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
Kim Young-haTags: inspirational books introspection korea kim korean young-ha
Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.
An NaTags: education american gender-equality assimilation korean
Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? There is no other word for it, no way to translate it. It is not a word. It is a way to console yourself. He is not just telling her to stand the pain, but giving her comfort, the power to do so. Chamara is an incantation, and if she listens to its sound, she believes that she can do it, that she will push through this sadness. And if she is strong about it, she'll be rewarded in the end. It is a way of saying, I know, I feel it, too. This burns my heart, too.
Samuel ParkTags: pain sadness korean grit chamara
I wonder if my father, given the chance, would have wished to go back to the time before he made all that money, when he just had one store and we rented a tiny apartment in Queens. He worked hard and had worries but he had a joy then that he never seemed to regain once the money started coming in. He might turn on the radio and dance cheek to cheek with my mother. He worked on his car himself, a used green Impala with carburetor trouble. They had lots of Korean friends that they met in church and then even in the street, and when they talked in public there was a shared sense of how lucky they were, to be in America but still have countrymen near.
Chang-rae LeeTags: immigrants korean
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