3월의 베를린 / Berlin in August
*이 글의 1부 “3월의 베를린”은 한국어로, 2부 “Berlin in August”는 영어로 되어 있습니다. 번역은 하지 않았습니다. *The first part of this …
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2022: Yellow
Each year becomes more difficult to distinguish from the last. 2021 was a little creature attached at 2020’s hip, a …
2021 Anthems
I’m back for my fourth rendition of annual anthems. Songs that defined my year, whether it be through a period …
Still can’t drive in my hometown
I apologize if this title is misleading. I can’t drive anywhere, but my hometown is the only place I’ve tried. …
Things that have nothing and everything to do with acting
(Written June 2021. I didn’t upload it at the time because it felt so ridiculously incomplete. It still does.) I …
서울을 사랑한다면
(커버 이미지: 서울혁신파크) 어제 퇴근하며 버스를 탔다. 대중교통에 앉을 자리가 있다면 책을 읽는 편이라 무의식적으로 책을 꺼내 무릎에 놓았다. 접혀 …
You signed no contract on your 20th birthday
You have to realize two things at once. That you’re doing the best you can. And that you could be …
생존신고
어느새 멀어진 두 사람 사이의 연락을 ‘생존신고’라 칭한다. 한때는 사소한 이야기들부터 눈물의 하소연까지 공유했던 우정이, 시간이 흘러 서로 살아있는가 정도만 …
Three, Two, One, Sober
It wasn’t the joke. It was the feeling of being in on it. We’d trickle out from one room and …
2021: Low Tide
I’m a little annoyed that a year that sounds so pretty in the mouth had to be so filthy in …
유스보이스 인턴이자, 동락가 막내입니다.
소속감은 근로계약서를 쓸 때 오지 않았다. 개인 사물함에 칫솔을 넣었을 때 처음 느꼈고, 신발장에 내 이름이 붙었을 때 두 번째로 …
INFP는 미래지향적이래요 // They Say INFPs are Future-Oriented
*가을에 쓴 글입니다. *Written this autumn; rough English translation below. 아무튼 그렇다. MBTI 타입 중 INFP가 가장 미래지향적이라는 의견도 있다. …
2020 Anthems
I’m not sure why I continue to make these annual music posts when no one asks for them. I realize …
People-watching at the Bar
There’s a woman in her 20’s. Bar 2. Orders a Midori Sour and puts her phone light under it to …
and then Hyukoh played LOVE YA!
and I was in tears before I realized what was happening. Where this familiar tune had struck me last. Perhaps …
부산행을 마치며 / Train From Busan
*부산에서 한 달을 지내고 돌아온 직후, 5월 말에 쓴 글입니다. 지금의 생각은 또 다릅니다. *This was written right after my …
In the Dream Journal
(Kind of partially maybe) after In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Taken straight from an email I sent someone last …
What We Mean When We Say We’re Angry About the “Nth Room”
(Content warning: sexual assault, sex trafficking, torture. Summary section includes particularly graphic language.) What we mean is, we’re confused. We’re …
모국어 / Mother Tongue
*올해 2월, 미국에 있는 기숙사에서 쓴 글입니다. This was written back in February from my dorm room in California. Poorly …
Ambivalent Girl Observes COVID-19
Turns out viruses elude classification. Much of modern science demoted them from living to nonliving, just packages of chemicals. Apparently …
Salt Water Plums 