Dear Mina:

What a precious letter to Gyunnie.

I thought of you earlier this morning, following my reading about the education-obsession in Korea and placing it with my reading of your posts over time, it occurred to me that you and Gyunnie were then, when in a relationship, and now, separated, like two prisoners in a war camp, a war camp with the title SKY. Thousands of prisoners in a war camp, a concentration camp of sorts.

In your very last post you wrote: “3 more years and I will be done, Gyunnie. Do you think that I will make it and will still be alive by then?” – as if indeed you were in such a camp where survival is questionable and you wonder if you will be alive by the end of the stay in the camp, three more years.

I don’t see how a relationship is possible for a student in SKY, so if I was you, I wouldn’t be tough on myself regarding the relationship ending, for now. Maybe it will resume one day, it is possible.

anita