People have an almost exhausting obsession with love. The world is overflowing with love songs, romantic films, and tabloid headlines about who’s dating whom. Even with the same clichés and predictable storytelling, people fall for love again and again, as if they’ve never seen it before…

Every April brings pain to a certain group of Koreans who lost their children or friends to the tragic Sewol Ferry Disaster. In April, 2017, I visited Berlin. It was three years after the tragedy. I was there to watch a documentary about the incident…

Around five in the evening, when the sun was beginning to dip, I often found myself cooking while crying. Somewhere between the death wish of depression and the survival instinct of hunger, my life clung to the edge of both…