Hyon-Joo’s Everyday Life

- Mom with an ox in 1960. Why am I always reminded of big plaintive eyes whenever I hear of hwangso(ox)? Well, it's because oxen do have big round eyes. Then, why sadness? It's hard to clearly point out the reasons. There is something sad about the way they "open and close" their eyes. To me, it's different from blinking. It looks like they close the world, pause there for a tiny bit of a second, and then open their eyes to the world again. Somehow that looks doleful to me. Maybe it's also because of the way they moo or "cry" - ...

Most time I go to the sand dune with co-workers, but from time to time I like to go there alone. It's usually one of those days that I feel a little depressed about the world and life, but also sometimes I go there alone to prove that I'm recharged with love. When I'm down for whatever reasons, every step I take at the sand dune reminds me of general difficulties of human being's life as well as my own hardships and confusions about life. In Korean, there is this expression, "chew loneliness as you chew sand grains". As sane ...