Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Love After a Fortnight

Love After a Fortnight By Park Sang Young Translated by Sean Lin Halbert Character is destiny. Afterwards, this is what I repeat to myself. ad the full moon not been out that night, I wonder what would Hhave happened. Had I not worked late that day, had I not ridden home in Han-yŏng’s car, would things have been die ff rent? It’s been just two years, but now it’s hard to imagine that I ever had to work late at the oc ffi e. That day, Han-yŏng and I were managing an event with more than two hundred people. Although we were the same age, and although he had skipped a grade in elementary school, Han-yŏng entered our company four years after me and was placed as my subordinate, a turn of events brought about by a working holiday in Australia and partying away most of his twenties. Being a superior to someone the same age as myself was confusing at first, but we quickly became friends because of our dislike for everything about oc ffi e parties except for the drinks, of course. We were so close, in fact, that people in the oc ffi e playfully nicknamed us “oc ffi e http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

Love After a Fortnight

Download PDF
37 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/love-after-a-fortnight-4Tyg4hh2mO
Publisher
University of Hawai'I Press
ISSN
1939-6120
eISSN
1944-6500
DOI
10.1353/aza.2022.0002
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

By Park Sang Young Translated by Sean Lin Halbert Character is destiny. Afterwards, this is what I repeat to myself. ad the full moon not been out that night, I wonder what would Hhave happened. Had I not worked late that day, had I not ridden home in Han-yŏng’s car, would things have been die ff rent? It’s been just two years, but now it’s hard to imagine that I ever had to work late at the oc ffi e. That day, Han-yŏng and I were managing an event with more than two hundred people. Although we were the same age, and although he had skipped a grade in elementary school, Han-yŏng entered our company four years after me and was placed as my subordinate, a turn of events brought about by a working holiday in Australia and partying away most of his twenties. Being a superior to someone the same age as myself was confusing at first, but we quickly became friends because of our dislike for everything about oc ffi e parties except for the drinks, of course. We were so close, in fact, that people in the oc ffi e playfully nicknamed us “oc ffi e

Journal

Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jul 14, 2022

There are no references for this article.