The Park family, written down
A dry cleaner's in Flushing, forty heads of cabbage every November, and one album from Seoul.
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Park Soon-ja
Park Soon-ja (1941–2021), Halmeoni, came from Seoul to Queens in 1979, ran the counter at the family's dry cleaner's in Flushing for thirty years, and every November made enough kimchi for four…
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The House in Flushing
An attached brick house in Flushing, Queens, bought in 1983 — the stoop, the basement with the kimchi fridge, and the window boxes Halmeoni filled with perilla and peppers.
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Halmeoni's Gimjang Kimchi
Napa cabbage kimchi, made at gimjang — the November weekend when Halmeoni and every woman she knew salted forty heads of cabbage in the basement of the house in Flushing.
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Chuseok, 1995
The harvest festival at the house in Flushing in 1995, the first year all three children came home with their own children — songpyeon on the table, the full moon over the rooftops.
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Park Dong-hyun
Park Dong-hyun (1938–2009), Harabeoji, pressed every shirt that passed through the dry cleaner's in Flushing for thirty years, and could get a crease straighter than anyone in Queens.
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The Album from Seoul
The one photograph album Halmeoni brought from Seoul in 1979 — and the notes she wrote on the back of every picture.
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