Between Father and Son *During my childhood, I didn’t have a good relationship with my father. Above all, it was difficult because we couldn’t communicate. By the time I entered college, the total amount of time I had conversations with my father that could be considered meaningful might not even be two hours. My father and I were very awkward with each other. It wasn’t that my father didn’t love me. It was just that, being from Gyeongsang Province, he wasn’t familiar with how to communicate with his son.

From Choi Kwang-hyun’s ‘A Son Grows Up Watching His Father’s Back’ –

Regardless of time and place, fathers and sons are often awkward. Perhaps that’s why the term ‘Oedipus complex’ exists. Most fathers in this land do not want their sons to be like them. Because they have already experienced it. Their desire for their sons to be better and live a better life is unwavering. Behind the cold and rough words and actions, there is a father’s deep love and tears.