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(뭐라고?) (keep up)
No subtitles! (none!) Read my face! (read it!)
If you need it all translated you were never in the place
No subtitles! (none!) Keep up! (keep up!)
I think in two whole languages. You struggle with the one.
Too Korean for the meeting! (what?) Too American for home! (what?)
Cool. I'll be too much for both. I eat good on my own.
Conference room on Sunset, four men and a kombucha
One says "annyeong" like a password. Bows. Wrong angle. Cute, though.
"We love the whole Seoul thing. Can you lean in? More of that?"
"More of what?" "You know. The... vibe." He drew a circle. I sat back.
"Put some Hangul in the logo." "It says what?" "Does it matter?"
That's the meeting. That's the whole thing. Pretty font and empty chatter
So I flew home. Cab from Gimpo, driver clocks me in a sentence
"교포?" Like a diagnosis. Like my accent needs repentance.
My aunt said I got dark. My cousin said I walk too loud.
I'm a tourist in two countries. Fine. I draw a crowd.
No subtitles! (none!) Read my face! (read it!)
If you need it all translated you were never in the place
No subtitles! (none!) Keep up! (keep up!)
I think in two whole languages. You struggle with the one.
You said you love my "culture." Named three dramas and a face cream
Asked me how to say your name in Korean. It's Brad. It's Brad. Same thing.
You want the girl from the show who cooks and cries and forgives in the rain
I want a man who reads the room. We are not the same.
My 할머니 crossed a river with my mother on her back
Raised four kids on rice and spite. You think I fold? For that?
For brunch? For "you're so different"? Different from who, Brad? Say it.
I'll wait. No. Take your time. There's no translation. You just played it.
I'm not your bridge. I'm not your lesson. I'm not homework. I'm the test.
And you didn't study. Bless your heart. That's Reseda for "next."
뭐라고? (what'd she say?)
I said what I said.
Figure it out.
(NO SUBTITLES!)
No subtitles! (none!) Read my face! (read it!)
If you need it all translated you were never in the place
No subtitles! (none!) Keep up! (keep up!)
I think in two whole languages. You struggle with the one.
Too Korean for the meeting! (what?) Too American for home! (what?)
The logo's just my name now. Both alphabets. I own it.
Four years inside the idol trainee system: Incheon to Gangnam at fourteen, weighed every Monday, cut at month forty-six, never debuted. She landed in LA with two hundred dollars, sang in the alley behind a nail salon on Reseda, and now owns every master. English with Korean inside it. No subtitles.