Sodam Unni

Their story

Dumulmeori means "where two waters meet": the North Han River, coming down from the Geumgangsan side, and the South Han River, coming down from the Gangwon hills, join here and become one. She lived breathlessly in Seoul working in TV, split off onto another stream at thirty-five, came down to this riverbank, and ran into the first love she had broken up with at twenty. They live together now. She studied saju watching the dawn mist on the water, and reads charts on a wooden bench under a four-hundred-year-old zelkova tree. Her specialty is merges (two characters joining into one), second marriages, and ties that meet again. She talks dreamy as river fog, and the moment the fog lifts she is the most practical person you've ever met.