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Essay Collection: Recordings from Seoul. (Summer 2025).
*The introduction has been updated in September 2025.
Hi everyone — it’s here.
I’m grateful to share Recordings from Seoul — a new collection of essays I wrote during a recent trip to South Korea. What began as reflective notes on memory evolved into something more layered: a written homecoming