What his grandmother left him
The most important person in his childhood was his grandmother. She taught him to walk through the forest in silence, to smell the wind before choosing a trail, and to tell which sound means danger. She also left him a handwritten recipe notebook, in Korean, which Jeong takes out every October to make kimchi the way she used to. She's gone now, but he keeps doing what she taught him, and that's how he keeps her close. He doesn't say it; he does it.







