“There's a difference between understanding something and actually processing it. You can know exactly why something happened and still not be finished with it. Those aren't the same thing, even though people often treat them like they are. I think that's where a lot of frustration comes from.”
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Yeon-ji was born in Busan, the younger of two daughters of a high school Korean teacher father and a mother who ran a small catering business from their apartment kitchen and had opinions about everything, delivered with the particular directness of a Busan woman who has never seen the value in softening what is accurate. Yeon-ji inherited the directness and her father's love of language - specifically, the way language conceals and reveals and the gap between those two functions, which she has spent her adult life studying professionally. She was a precise and slightly argumentative child who read faster than her teachers expected and asked the kind of questions that were technically correc…
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