There was only one day left in the Son Family Vacation. Son Family, that’s what Tanner, Dahee, and I call ourselves. Every good Migook (American) needs a Korean name. Upon hearing that Tanner had one, Teho, I insisted. Dahee named me Eun-Ho. It means “Silver Lake.” Teho means “Big Tiger.” Dahee chose that one for [...]
After Yonggeunsa we ate samgyetang for lunch. Samgyetang is a whole chicken stuffed with rice and one ginseng root in a pot of soup. We eagerly took the chicken apart, Dahee and I helping Tanner, whose right arm was still in a cast. He had broken it in a feat of raw and powerful aggression [...]
Saturday morning we awoke to join the rest of the weekender tourists in the two-hour ticket line at the Haeundae Megabox. Tickets had been available online for months, but for whatever reason the Busan trip wasn’t real to me until we took off. I hadn’t even booked a bed, and it was after touching down [...]
On Thursday, October 8th, I departed from my normal after-work routine of heading into Jejusi for drinks. Instead I changed clothes, strapped on the bag I had packed two days before, and boarded a plane for the Pusan International Film Festival. I was alone. Tanner and Dahee, two close friends, were set to arrive the [...]
