Two people sit in a corner of an LP bar in Jongno.Wave-shaped speakers vibrate their hearts through invisible frequencies.The volume is loud, but maybe because the speakers are expensive, the sound never grates on the ears.It simply sharpens their conversation.For a moment, they seem to look this way.Then they continue sipping their Jack Cokes.A: “No, listen to me. People shouldn’t do what they ..

Someone is reflected in the spotless mirror of a jewelry store.The figure in the mirroris an expressionless man who appears to be in his mid-thirties.Wearing a black cap, a black short-sleeved shirt, and gray shorts,he felt out of place compared to the elegantly dressed female owner greeting customers,and unlike the two female customers standing nearby.Their faces seemed as if they were floating..

Back then, I never imagined I would end up working in marketing again.When I stormed out of that blade-like building in the middle of Teheran-ro,I was fiercely ambitious. It felt like effort could achieve anything,self-improvement was as natural as breathing,being called “above average” was nowhere near enough,and there was always some excessive energy inside me trying to force its way out. How..

[Wednesday]“The sky feels strange.”A man sitting alone on a bench along the trail senses a subtle unfamiliarity in the air.Thinking it might simply be because there is no fine dust today, he tilts his head upward and inhales deeply, spreading his nostrils wide as though the breath might reach even the place where his appendix used to be.The moment odor molecules bind to the olfactory receptor ce..

That day, white noise sat beside books inside the large bookstore. A middle-aged woman in casual clothes brought her hand to her lips with an elegant expression, then continued turning pages after wetting her index finger with saliva, like a dishwasher automatically spraying water. A group of schoolgirls laughed like sparrows and fluttered around like sparrows, shaking their hair as though searc..

Volvo XC60 was entering a highway ramp.The man in the driver’s seat cut his eyes toward the rearview mirror as if turning his head itself were inefficient.Noticing an Audi A6 approaching rather closely in the outer lane, he pressed the accelerator instead of the brake.After quickly gauging the relative speed difference between the two vehicles, he felt certain he would not inconvenience the car ..