Hyon-Joo’s Everyday Life

I was never a big fan of Choi Jin Sil, but I admired her when she got her children's custody after her painful divorce. I gave her big claps - quietly in my mind - when she succeeded in changing her kids' last name to hers because I know how tough it is to make it done in Korea. She might not have had a grand intention to achieve something in Korean women's equalization movement, but at least she did her best not to follow unjust social conventions and she made it! I was also delighted when I heard ...

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 ...

There was a woman that I saw once in Tonle Sap Lake in Combodia. Lake Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia. For most of the year, its size gets to 2,700 square km, but it can increase to 16,000 square km due to flooded water from Mekong river during the monsoon season. This is Tonle Sap from Google Map: I was enjoying the vastness of the lake with my three travel mates and a few strangers in a small boat. I'd never been to such a huge lake. It felt like we were sailing in the ocean. It ...