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Essay April Salute from Korea

2017.04.08 10:30

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April Salute from Korea;  Sunday AM     

                                                          three April Songs
 

        March was a cruel month to every Korean, no matter how you look at the

     chaotic past 7-8 months of political turmoil, whether you look into from

     the right side or the left side.

 

 But every cloud has silver lining.

 To me it did seem, even for the wealthy establishments, feeling of

 unhappiness,& helplessness has been soaking into this superficially opulent

 Korean society during recent years(The Happiness Index in the bottom among

 OECD  countries).

 We have seen enough ups and downs in life in Korea. This will be the mixed

 blessing  in Korean politics.

 Every piece of dirt has been exposed.

 Nothing could be hidden under. This might be the chance Korea leap forward

 toward truly a developed democratic society  where  reasoning prevails.

 

 March is gone—gone forever.

 April is here.  I hope April would not be the cruelest month of the year.

 After two days of gentle rain here in Seoul, spring is everywhere. 

 As T.S. Eliot said in the “I.Burial of Dead, Waste Land”, it is the season

 when the spring rain stirr the dull roots of little lives, breed lilacs

 out of the dead land.

 

 One attraction in living on a high floor of a condominium along

 Tanchun River(탄천,한강지류),Bundang-section is that I could have the

 leisurely moments  to watch the spring come in along this small tributary

 of Han river..  

 

 Last couple of weeks, as I open the window in the early morning,

 I can feel the increased temperature of the air, the wind and even

 the earth.. If get lucky, sometimes I could see geese, maybe pigeons

 or some sort of returning birds sailing over the misty river.

 Grass on the bank across the river looks greener everyday.

 

 In spite of the turmoil in Korea, the April sun of 2017 shines bright

 and warm on this late hour of leisurely Sunday morning with signs of

 rebirth and vitality everywhere, carps swimming in the warm streams

 swollen with spring rain, cherry trees in full blossom.

 

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                                                         Prepared by Joong H. choh(class of 1969)

 

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