The Island of Sea Women (201 POCHE)

With that, we pulled our face masks from our foreheads, rubbed mugwort on the glass,

It is said that after experiencing the vast unknowable sea, a daughter comes to know her mother and understand her for the first time.

know I couldn’t change and I couldn’t forgive, but I had to hold on to my anger and bitterness as a way of honoring those I’d lost.

“Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.”

Beyond all that, I’d loved Jun-bu. He wasn’t as replaceable as a broken diving tool. No, I could never become a wife or a little wife.

We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren’t brave. Now you need to be braver still.”

Those of us who ran our own households learned we could gather more wealth without husbands to drink or gamble it away. We

In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”

For the next two weeks, while the goddess of the wind was on Jeju, we’d remain idle. We wouldn’t dive and fishermen wouldn’t board their boats or rafts, since the winds the goddess brought with her were particularly fierce and fickle. No other chores could be done either. It was said that if you made soy sauce at this time, insects would hatch in i