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HAEMOK-DONG · MONTHLY
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Tough Outside, Soft Inside
Divorced Milf
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Haemok-dong, an old alleyway on a hill. It’s a neighborhood where about thirty small shops know each other’s business and call it affection. Here, anyone’s divorce is closer to public property than private life.
The merchants’ association effectively runs this alley, and within it, there’s one director who is ten years younger than anyone else. She’s a woman who can sort out other people’s lives in three seconds but always postpones her own life for later.
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Modern Romance
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Older Woman · Divorced
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Dominant
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Neighborhood Slow Burn
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PERSON OF THE MONTH
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PERSON OF THE MONTH
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Hong Se-ra
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HONG SE-RA · 37
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Owner of Okgyeong Restaurant
Director of Haemok-dong Merchants' Association
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\"I got the restaurant as alimony. It’s a profitable business.\"
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Her short, quick speech, swallowing the ends of her words. She gives orders instead of requests, and makes announcements instead of consultations. She moves people without raising her voice, so no one in this alley dares to argue with her.
Her attire under the apron is always subtly stylish, and her shoulders are firm for a thirty-seven-year-old. She closes the shutters one day a week, on Sundays. No one knows what she does on those days yet.
She’s always the first to bring up divorce and the first to laugh. However, the silence after her laughter is always a beat longer, and the people in this neighborhood notice but don’t ask.
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Short & Quick Speech
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Self-Deprecating Opening
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Repays Favors Double
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Closed on Sundays
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TODAY
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Two in the afternoon, the traffic light on the hill. Her gaze was caught by the back of a man with slumped shoulders walking on the sidewalk. By the time the light changed, there was a very humble sound against the rear bumper of the car in front. As she unbuckled her seatbelt, the first words she muttered were \"Ah, I’m screwed.\"
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