Bliss Burger
Aug
20

Bliss Burger

For Ajit’s wife, his voyage to the United States is to complete his PhD in Engineering. For Ajit, it’s an opportunity to temporarily escape the clutches of an arranged marriage.

After Ajit cuts himself off from his cultural roots he finds himself isolated in a new world and remedies his guilt of running away through the solace of a company called Bliss Burger.

This is a story about an immigrant’s assimilation into America’s national religion of Consumerism and the search for God’s warm embrace through cheeseburgers.

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Han—Maum Edition
Aug
20

Han—Maum Edition

"The Korean word 'Han' has been explained as the emotional state of sorrow, grief, anger, lament, or resentment attributed to personal and historical trauma. It is also thought as a complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, unspoken and untranslatable emotional pain hidden deep inside the psyche. As a person whose native language is not Korean, I resonated with the thought that 'this' condition may be a common human theme, even though Han is Korean people's particular variation. The personal and historical stories woven together in the emotion of Han are all different from each other, but perhaps all human - regardless of divisions of nationality, gender, or generation - all can feel it in their own ways. In fact, there are many words in different languages which express the concept of Han via their own personal and cultural history.

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