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9월, 2025의 게시물 표시

When Time Stopped Before the Third Cancer – Why I Put Down My Pen (2019–2025)

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Prologue – As If Time Stood Still For weeks, I couldn’t bring myself to write. It wasn’t because I lost interest, and it wasn’t for lack of ideas. My heart and mind were simply too heavy. Everything froze when we heard the news of my mother’s third cancer. I had always wanted to keep sharing pieces of our daily life here, but this time, writing took a back seat to simply enduring. So today, I want to share gently why I had to stop writing — and what this unexpected season has meant for our family. 1. A Small Sore on the Tongue – The First Cancer In 2019, my mom mentioned a small sore on her tongue. We all thought it would heal in a few days, but strangely, it didn’t. Even after medication and ointment from the ENT clinic, nothing changed. The doctor suggested a biopsy at a larger hospital. I will never forget my mother’s face when the results came back. The word “cancer” shattered her. She walked out of the hospital room in silence, tears streaming down her cheeks. Thankfully,...
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When Time Stopped Before the Third Cancer – Why I Put Down My Pen (2019–2025)

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Prologue – As If Time Stood Still For weeks, I couldn’t bring myself to write. It wasn’t because I lost interest, and it wasn’t for lack of ideas. My heart and mind were simply too heavy. Everything froze when we heard the news of my mother’s third cancer. I had always wanted to keep sharing pieces of our daily life here, but this time, writing took a back seat to simply enduring. So today, I want to share gently why I had to stop writing — and what this unexpected season has meant for our family. 1. A Small Sore on the Tongue – The First Cancer In 2019, my mom mentioned a small sore on her tongue. We all thought it would heal in a few days, but strangely, it didn’t. Even after medication and ointment from the ENT clinic, nothing changed. The doctor suggested a biopsy at a larger hospital. I will never forget my mother’s face when the results came back. The word “cancer” shattered her. She walked out of the hospital room in silence, tears streaming down her cheeks. Thankfully,...
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Tigers in Korean Culture – From Myths to Modern Stories

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From a mythic tiger to a smash-hit movie character K-pop Demon Hunters seems to be everywhere these days—people can’t stop talking about it. It’s so popular that even my pastor mentioned it once during service ;) At home, my child has probably watched it more than ten times, and on car rides we end up looping “Golden” and “Sodapop.” In my previous post, I looked at the bear and tiger in the Dangun myth. With the tiger character “Derpy” from K-pop Demon Hunters gaining so much love, I wanted to talk about tigers in Korean culture today. In the simple version of the myth, the bear endures and becomes human, while the tiger gives up and returns to the mountains. Today’s story follows how the tiger survived in the Korean imagination—taking on many forms—and became a special symbol. Fierce and formidable In premodern Korea, people called the tiger the “mountain lord,” sangun (산군), the master of the mountains. Tigers roamed our ranges commonly up through the Joseon era, so people...
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