#halmeoni

[getwokegirl]

Halmeoni | A Short Film About Forgetting Your Language

My 할머니 passed away over the summer, five days before what was to be her 93rd birthday.

I was in the same country as her for the first time in 27 years.

I missed seeing her by two days.

I can only hope that knowing we were in Korea making our way to her, that we would see each other again, and that she would meet her great grand-daughter, brought her happiness as she drifted to sleep that final night.

[learning-k0rean]

할머니

[hal·meo·ni]

(noun) (when referring to or addressing one's own grandmother, shouldn't be used when mentioning or talking about someone else's) grandmother, grandma, granny · (could be an affectionate noun/name as well for female elders) Ma'am, old lady

[pahintulot]

Our Han Ji Pyeong is a lonely man. He never really had anyone yet he never used it as an excuse. He always fend for himself and maybe the reason why he often gives harsh comments which always knocks idealistic people down is because he's been there. He literally started from the bottom and have experienced all the cruelties this world could offer.

So when our halmeoni offered him kindness he was really overwhelmed. But seeing how much halmeoni loved our Ji Pyeong makes us all in peace that despite the sadness and loneliness that he carried in his heart for a long time, someone is providing light for him. And it isn't Dal Mi. It was halmeoni.

And I think it was something most people missed--that Han Ji Pyeong's purpose is to have someone by his side to love him for with all his edges and it doesn't really need to be romantic--it was maternal love. A love that gave him warmth and somehow cured his loneliness.

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[kimxdxnghyvn]

kamimashikana replied to your post:

Macaroni soup for the nice young man?

An almost disgusted expression takes over his face. “Yahh, halmeoni--- You’re joking right? Unless that’s code for ‘bag of blood’, I’ll pass.. This is why I never come over for dinner, you’ll try to feed me something like that to make me heavy and sick.”

[takemeoutforbreakfast]

031717//12:37am

 “Love life no matter how difficult it is.”

— Halmeoni 💖

[eonjuchung]

Remembering Halmeoni (2012)

[ashleyinprocess]

Halmeonis/할먼이들이다. (Seoul, South Korea • © 2014 Ashley Guillaume)

These two women live below me. Every day they wave back at me when I wave to them as I come and go from my home. We talk every now and then and every now and then they ask about how I'm doing or where my friends who have stayed over or exes who have visited have gone. In a way we look out for each other.