Postcards from Korea
Photographs from my first trip back to Korea after leaving in 1984.
Origin Story: Part IV
What do you buy for the person who gave birth to you, but who you haven’t seen in almost 34 years and have no memory of, regardless?
10 Years Can Change Your Mind About Anything
One Sunday afternoon in the spring of 2018, at approximately 10:45 in the morning, it occurred to me how much I enjoy spending time in Carmel, California.
Origin Story: Part III
“Don’t worry about it. You’re Korean," she reassured me. But am I? What does “being Korean” even mean, to me, as an adoptee, who can reclaim that identity in whatever way I choose?
Origin Story: Part II
A history on how I have long wrangled the question, "So, what are you?"
Origin Story: Part I
Until a few months ago, I did not feel drawn to Korea at all. Yet simultaneously, I would fantasize about some life I must be living in a parallel universe, in which I never left and cannot write in the language you are reading.
