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Part 2 of Impressions of Busan , Part 1 of Ten Thousand Afternoons
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2024-01-10
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2024-01-22
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60/60
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Ten Thousand Afternoons on the Isle of Dongbaek

Summary:

No matter what kind of door opens before us in life...

And even if the moments we share make us sad at times,

I wish to love tirelessly.

Just like that, we decided to love the fate that chose us. Just for today and only today. And forever.



This part of the story is told twice. Here are the vivid details, bright flashes of color broken into pieces that, only when you step back, reveal the picture in whole.

Art inspiration:
Sunday Afternoon On The Island of Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Originally a collection of deleted scenes from Like Water Lilies and Sunflowers, I realized they had a story of their own to tell, exploring grief and healing.

To continue onward, read Season 2 of Ten Thousand Afternoons.

Notes:

Some chapters are extremely short, others are longer. Format varies. There are no full scenes, nothing is in order, very little is explained.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Introduction

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

2022

That first year after her entire life had reset, when she hadn't known where he was, whether he was looking for her, or if he was even alive, she'd taken the bare minimum number of leave days to maintain her sanity and lost herself in work the rest of the time, desperate to dull the ache of missing him. The next year, she'd simply declared that she wouldn't be working weekends and no one had argued because she wasn't a walking husk anymore. Those vacation days had rolled over, too. Now, in the third year, she had nearly two months accrued in her vacation savings account. She would need every single one of them.

Notes:

In this post on labor law, South Korean civil service leave is used as an example for how private sector leave practices could be reformed:

 

In addition to the recommended number of annual leave days, unused annual leave can be deposited in a “savings account” for up to three years, allowing for long-term vacations. For example, civil servants who have been employed for 6 years or more receive 21 days of annual vacation. If they take the recommended minimum of 10 days as vacation, and then save 11 days a year for 3 years, depositing a total of 33 days over those 3 years, they can go on vacation for more than a month at a time.