Tag: Korean
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What’s in a Name
Do you know the meaning of your name? Who named you and why did they choose that name for you? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, I encourage you to find out! My name is Minjoo Bayers. Here is the story of my name. Following Korean tradition, my paternal grandfather named me.…
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Saying I Love You
Growing up, my family did not say “I love you” to one another. That didn’t mean that we didn’t love each other, it was just not a cultural norm. I grew up in a traditional Korean home. We immigrated from Seoul to New York (Queens) in 1990 and brought to the US, a frozen piece…
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Han 한
Han 한 “Han is a sense of unresolved resentment against injustice suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against, a feeling of acute pain of sorrow in one’s guts and bowels making the whole body write and wriggle, and an obstinate urge to take “revenge” and to right the wrong all these…
Flourishing MaEum 