"Was
the chewing of kakdugi(sliced radish kimchi) was too loud? I
asked my husband who took a nap and awake from the next room. He said, "Even
though it sounds, but the smell of ripe kakdugi is like a makgeolli (a Korean alcoholic beverage) brewery."
In the apartment where I lived with my roommate
before marriage, I was chewing the pickled radish with rice. Suddenly the door
opened wide and my roommate said, "What is the sound of chewing? Can’t you
eat quietly? The sound is so loud that I’m too embarrassed to ask me my boyfriend what she is
making sounds about. "She screamed at me and slammed the door. I thought
there was nobody at home, but I was just dumbfounded.
The food I was eating I dumped quietly in the trashcan.
I entered the room and was breathless. When I looked through the door, a huge white
man opened the apartment door and left. In the broad daylight, I had no idea
that she was going to have a foreign man was at home.
The incident occurred to me only occasionally
when I was chewing on pickled radishes, but the incident of Kakdugi, a tall,
sophisticated and elegant friend, was fatal.
"No matter what kind meal you eat alone,
you have to eat some formalities. What's this?" My friend's pride suddenly
collapsed in a moment when her boyfriend came to her place suddenly without any
notice and looked at the table. She was so embarrassed that she could not respond and threw the food
into sink. “What if my boyfriend was disappointed about me?” She asked me and wept.
He was disturbed by the fact that my friend’s table, he has
lost contact with my friends and finally they broke up. Watching her agonizing
waiting for a call from boyfriend, I could not believe ‘she was disgraceful
about that much.’
On the day my husband solves dinner outside, I’m
sagging and enjoying my own time while boiling an egg on ramen. Put a pot and pickled
radish on the table in front of the TV. Put hot ramen in the pot lid and eat it with
gusto and suddenly falling into the old memories of being submerged.
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