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Confessions of a Knock-off apartment Kid from the 1980s | LIST

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Article: http://list.or.kr/node/912
Journal: list_Books from Korea
Issued Date: -
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Language: English(English)
Country: SOUTH KOREA
City: Seoul
Book: -
Writer: Jeong Yi Hyun

About the Author

Jeong Yi Hyun
Birth : Unknown ~ Unknown
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Yi Hyun
Family Name : Jeong
Korean Name : 정이현
ISNI : 0000000073307071
Works : 18

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Confessions of a Knock-off apartment Kid from the 1980s By Jeong Yi Hyun on Nov 05 2014 04:13:30 Vol.21 Autumn 2013 In this personal essay, writer Jeong Yi Hyun reflects on her childhood fascination with modern apartment living. I am not a “natural born apartment kid.” It would, rather, be more appropriate to say that I spent my childhood hankering for the life of an apartment kid. My first memory of the space called an apartment starts in the early 1980s. Around that time my maternal grandparents moved to the ninth floor of the newly-built Samho Apartment in Bangbae-dong. It was when the real estate development boom in Gangnam had just begun. Any information on which course my grandparents took to sell their traditional style house in Pilwoon-dong, Jongno-gu, and start their life in the apartment, has not stayed with me. There is a better chance that I never had such a memory. For there exists no adult who lets a child, not yet age 10, in on those details – neither then, nor now.

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