25-year-old Ahyeon Kim lives in a neighborhood in Seoul with the fastest rising real estate value — ironic, because she lives in one of its cheapest houses, on a rooftop with cockroaches and no space to put her baggage. Home used to be by the ocean: waves, seagulls, the warmth of her family. Now, the crude reality of home is the concrete outline of Seoul: its packed subway, the steepness of her rooftop stairs. The longer she’s here, the more she knows, she will never real...
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25-year-old Ahyeon Kim lives in a neighborhood in Seoul with the fastest rising real estate value — ironic, because she lives in one of its cheapest houses, on a rooftop with cockroaches and no space to put her baggage. Home used to be by the ocean: waves, seagulls, the warmth of her family. Now, the crude reality of home is the concrete outline of Seoul: its packed subway, the steepness of her rooftop stairs. The longer she’s here, the more she knows, she will never really go back home. But Ahyeon sees love in grief, home on a rooftop.
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