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05/25/09

Permalink 09:47:03 pm, by admin Email , 79 words   English (US)
Categories: ...and Takes On, Korea, 사랑?, America, Things I'd Forgotten About

Flawed

"You are flawed," Good Man said.

I looked at him, hurt.

Good Man didn't notice the look on my face. "You are wrong because..." He ticked off reasons my argument was flawed.

When I was in Korea—where I was not a native speaker—I almost always remembered that Good Man is not a native English speaker. Here—where I am a native speaker—I sometimes forget that.

Now, which flaw number would that be?

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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