Seoyeon

A state of war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

My grandfather fought alongside both of them. I typed that sentence into a translation app three times because I did not believe I had understood the English correctly.

28,500 American soldiers are stationed in my country.

Until this month that number was a comfort. This month I noticed it is also just a number of people, on our soil, belonging to somebody else, whose government has started doing this.

Nobody in Seoul is saying it loudly. Everybody in Seoul is thinking it.