4 Powerful Life Lessons From My Korean Grandmother

The author and her grandmother, wearing traditional Korean hanbok

My grandma used to visit us every summer. She was in her seventies by then, but she was still very robust and healthy. She would take the nearly fifteen-hour flight from her home in Seoul, South Korea to where my parents and I lived on the eastern coast of the United States.

I didn’t realize it then, but what she did was very brave. She came to see us for a few months, every…