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Virtual Tour By Kim Hyun Translated by Archana Madhavan The Switch Service will begin shortly. am in Hong Kong now with Ch’ŏru. This incident took place Iw hen I was in Hong Kong with Yŏngsu (of course, this Hong Kong wasn’t the same as past Hong Kong. Following the spread of the coronavirus variant, we were citizens of a country in lockdown). Whenever we wanted to celebrate an occasion, Yŏngsu and I used the Virtual Tour service provided by Switch, Inc., to go on the vacation of our dreams, and every time, we got into fights— both big and little—with each other. It was enough to make me wonder if we went on vacation for the sole purpose of fighting. The reason for our fights was generally trivial and unfolded in tiresome detail, as follows. One kind of Yŏngsu thought whatever day we were celebrating wasn’t that special and wanted to stay at the hotel and do nothing. Another kind of Yŏngsu would stare pointedly at me, lying defenseless and docile in bed, and say, If you’re just going to stay inside all day, why did we go on vacation? (You’re telling me . . . .) It’s not even that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

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University of Hawai'I Press
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1939-6120
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1944-6500
DOI
10.1353/aza.2022.0006
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By Kim Hyun Translated by Archana Madhavan The Switch Service will begin shortly. am in Hong Kong now with Ch’ŏru. This incident took place Iw hen I was in Hong Kong with Yŏngsu (of course, this Hong Kong wasn’t the same as past Hong Kong. Following the spread of the coronavirus variant, we were citizens of a country in lockdown). Whenever we wanted to celebrate an occasion, Yŏngsu and I used the Virtual Tour service provided by Switch, Inc., to go on the vacation of our dreams, and every time, we got into fights— both big and little—with each other. It was enough to make me wonder if we went on vacation for the sole purpose of fighting. The reason for our fights was generally trivial and unfolded in tiresome detail, as follows. One kind of Yŏngsu thought whatever day we were celebrating wasn’t that special and wanted to stay at the hotel and do nothing. Another kind of Yŏngsu would stare pointedly at me, lying defenseless and docile in bed, and say, If you’re just going to stay inside all day, why did we go on vacation? (You’re telling me . . . .) It’s not even that

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jul 14, 2022

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