[감정의 표본실] 반가움

Joy at a reunion, rendered as a scene: the narrow front entrance of a Korean family home on the first morning of the Chuseok holiday. The small stone-floored entryway is completely overflowing with shoes of every size, far more than it can hold: men's dress shoes, sneakers, a pair of tiny children's shoes with velcro straps, an elderly person's rubber slip-ons, all jumbled and overlapping, some spilling up onto the step. A rolling suitcase and a cloth-wrapped gift box squeezed in the corner. Warm light and a blur of a busy living room beyond. No people visible. No text, no letters, no logos anywhere.