Online Exhibition

Elder K01: Korean and American flags

“People usually think about their childhood home [or] their hometown… They have these thoughts with a sense of nostalgia. Would this be called being ‘homesick’? I don’t have anything like that. I used to see the Korean flag everywhere Korea and think nothing of it. I left Korea because I hated it. Not the people, but the government and what happened in our family history. But when I find myself tearing up at the sight of the Korean flag now, I realize that I’m still Korean, I didn’t understand that when I was living in Korea.”