Some flights take you home. Others take you back.

This is a story about a Korean girl who had almost nothing—not even a loving family—but survived anyway. It begins in a steel-mill town in Pohang, Korea, in the 1980s, where life was harsh, money was thin, and the town itself carried its own quiet cruelties.

All she ever wanted was simple: to attend a good college, build a career unlike her mother’s, marry a kind man, and create the family she never had. But life had other plans.

Episode by episode, this story traces the hardships she endured, the resilience she didn’t know she had, and the long road to survival.

I write this novel based on lived experiences—pieces of a life that once felt too heavy to tell aloud. Here, I can finally breathe. If you’re here, welcome.

🎞️Featured Episodes

✈️Episode 1 : Return Flight

Yuri returns to Korea for her brother’s sudden wedding, expecting a simple visit. But the moment she sees her parents at the airport, her body tenses. This episode reveals what unfolds when you go home hoping things have changed. But Yuri realizes they never do.

🏬Episode 2: Always Like This

Twenty-four hours after landing in Korea, Yuri is booking a hotel to escape her own family. Between the disrupted sleep, her parents' early morning fight, and being called names in a fancy department store, she remembers something she'd spent two decades trying to forget.

📝Musings

I wanted to spill the small truths of everyday life — the things I'm thinking about, struggling with, learning from, or surviving. Just little snapshots of my mind as I move through the day. Nothing polished. Nothing filtered. Just honest thoughts from a life in progress. I hope you find a comrade in me.

🫒The Body Keeps the Score

Some stories don't settle into the past—they keep breaking into the present, demanding to be told.

🧹The Boyfriend, the Bunny House, and the Bird Poop.

My daughter's boyfriend was coming over, and suddenly our messy split-level needed to become presentable.

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