Min Jin Lee

Essays | May 12, 2011

Up Front: After the Earthquake

March 11, 2011, fell on a Friday, the day I run errands and go to the market. Until 2:46 p.m., about an hour before my thirteen-year-old son, Sam, would return home from his international school in Chofu, a suburb of Tokyo, it had been a good day. Once in a rare while in the life of a writer struggling on her sophomore novel, it’s possible to achieve a state of semi-contentedness by producing a few decent pages, and that morning was a halcyon interlude in my otherwise grumbling condition. After printing out my day’s work, I tidied the house, raced to the bank, paid my utility bills, then mulled over what to make for dinner for Sam and my husband, Christopher.

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Essays | May 01, 2010

Chosun Ilbo

조선일보 아침논단
by Min Jin Lee

[2010. 04. 14] 번역된 한국 문학 그 놀라운 힘

[2010. 03. 04] 한국 브랜드엔 충성할 미국인 있나

[2010. 01. 25] ‘좀 더 잘 실패해보는’ 새해를

[2009. 12. 14] 승리하는 팀

[2009. 11. 19] 왜 한국인은 자살률이 높은가

[2009. 10. 20] “사는 게 행복한가요?”

[2009. 09. 16] 진짜 교육

[2009. 08. 12] 파리의 마레 지구에서 생긴 일

[2009. 07. 13] 아무도 말하지 않는 진짜 이유

[2009. 06. 11] 126년 묵은 사랑의 빚 88달러

[2009. 05. 13] 어버이날, 나는 어떤 부모인가 생각한다

[2009. 04. 06] 100번이나 불합격 통지를 받은 당신에게

[2009. 03. 22] 질투와 자부심

[2009. 02. 10] 차라리 대한민국을 성형하라

[2008. 11. 19] “왜 변호사를 그만두셨어요?”

– Chosun Ilbo

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