My Family Story
This is a family story that makes you feel warm and deep family love.
Mom Never Yields with the Power of Love for Her Children
My phone rang while I was washing dishes. It was Mom. I could guess why she was calling me. Mom must have called me to give me some side dishes. At the thought, ‘I should’ve called her first,’ I was…
Lee Su-ja from Gumi, South Korea
Lost Shoes Back
My grandma always wants to give me more. When I was in elementary school, she bought me a desk for hard study. She paid for school uniforms in my middle and high school days. When I became a college student…
Oh Jin-hui from Anyang, South Korea
Filial Piety Is…
Recently, my right wrist hurt. I thought it would be healed soon that I had no regard for it. But the pain worsened as days went by. I was just enduring pain, wearing a wrist brace and doing hot towel…
Jang Sun-hyang from Seoul, South Korea
My First Salary
I checked the text message at a vibration of my cell phone. My salary was deposited. I was happy because it was the first salary in my life. ‘Is this really mine? How should I use it?’ I thought of…
Kim Seon-wu from Seongnam, South Korea
Beautiful Mind and Touching Words
My first eight-year-old son is easily frightened. When he went to the bathroom or needed water to drink at night, he had to wake me or my husband up. One day, however, he woke up at dawn and went to…
Jeong Eun-yeong from Uijeongbu, South Korea
My Father
It was when I went to my parents’ house for the first holiday after my marriage. Resting in a room, I heard Dad and my husband were talking in the living room. Later, my husband came into the room and…
Tak Jin-seul from Anyang, South Korea
Older Sister’s Confession of Love
It was the Lunar New Year holidays during the winter vacation when I was in the second grade of elementary school. My aunt, who had lived close at hand and moved to a remote city, visited our home. We were…
Han Yu-mi from Changwon, South Korea