A letter looking for someone · Someone I met travelling
Grandma Kim · Haeundae fish market
Sent Nov 12, 2026
- Where & when
- Haeundae fish market · Busan · South Korea 2022 dried fish stall near the main gate
- About them then
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Grandma Kim · about 64 then
A woman in her sixties with a sun-browned face and white rubber boots, who ran a stall of dried fish near the main gate of the market. She wore a huge yellow raincoat even on sunny days and hummed while she cut the heads off sardines.
- Who I was then
- The tall Swedish girl who stood in front of your stall in the rain, completely lost, with a dead phone.
- Why I'm writing
- To say thank you · Just hoping my words reach them
It was June 2022 and I had been in Busan for two days when my wallet and phone were both gone in a crowded alley. I walked into the fish market because it was dry. You looked at me, said something I did not understand, and put me on a stool by your stove. You fed me something hot and spicy, charged my phone with a lead you pulled out of a drawer, and called your nephew to translate. Nobody had been that kind to me in a long time.
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