hellostranger
Saturday
May222010

Korean-Paragraph-Korean

After 26 years, I am tired of websites and online applications coercing me to define myself as "South Korean," as opposed to "North Korean." I am Korean, I've always been Korean, and although my family is originally from North Korea, I do not want to identify myself as to represent a particular region of Korea. I was born and raised in Seoul, a crazy beautiful city where the subways are so complicated I always get on the wrong line and the summer showers and winter frosts come in dogs and cats and grenades, where everyone speaks the edgiest, tangiest language ever created that has over seventeen ways to express the color "yellow," where the best minds of my generation can be found on the streets dancing to colossal beats of tradition and nontradition, and where I learned to be drunk all the time on mind-numbing, awe-inspiring people to live and die for. 

If you're from any part of this politically insane and supernaturally energy-bombing country, you'd know.

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