[Jeong Deok-hyeon's Square World] Why you can feel the pain behind Kim Yoo-jung and Park Jin-young’s faces as they pretend they’re okay
100 Days of Deception: what it’s like for young people with neither parents nor a country to live pretending they’re okay
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In other words, Lee Ga-gyeong and Kim Tae-ung are both young people living lives caught between truth and lies. Their real names are Lee Ga-gyeong and Kim Tae-ung, but they live disguised as Geum Seo-hui and Sato Hideo. In truth, they’re desperate and afraid, with tears pouring down, but they force themselves to smile and pretend they’re okay. What made them this way? If the parents who abandoned them are the immediate cause, then beneath that, perhaps the fundamental cause is a country that lost its sovereignty.
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This is so clean and well written. That final scene in episode 6, seriously... I wanted to hug those two while they were holding each other
Wow, this is such a good piece. I also love the line in the full article, “Their real names are Lee Ga-gyeong and Kim Tae-ung.”
This exact feeling had me stuck in the afterglow right through this morning... 😭