Zucchini Salad, Pachinko, Morning Ritual

20220608, #breakfastdiary 460, 18°C/mostly clear, 10min/exercise Peel yellow zucchini into thin slices with a vegetable peeler, sprinkle with lemon juice and a little salt, and refrigerate for about 30 minutes. Squeeze out the liquid, drizzle with olive oil, toss toss, shape it, and plate with feta cheese. #zucchinisalad An interesting piece in today's paper (Kim Hyun-ah, The Age of the Great Story) boils down to three keywords in the current landscape of writing. The first keyword has to be <Daily Isula>. Starting a mailing subscription service with the catchy pitch 'one piece a day, ten thousand won a month, five hundred won a piece,' <Daily Isula> created a new model of direct trade between reader and writer. Second, the 'Korea Science Fiction Literary Award.' Kim Cho-yeop, author of <If We Can't Go at the Speed of Light>, and Cheon Seon-ran, author of <A Thousand Blues>, are among its winners. The third keyword is author Min Jin Lee and <Pachinko>. Translated into 26 languages and adapted into an Apple drama, <Pachinko> shows how the particular history endured by people on the Korean peninsula — Japanese colonial rule, the Great Kanto Earthquake, fingerprinting, Korean schools in Japan — can become a universal story that resonates around the world. The first and second were things I already knew; for the third, it was nothing but praise, from 'it's good, it's moving' to 'even the color grading on screen is different.' (Most of that praise is probably for Apple's #Pachinko, of course.) Anyway, it made me curious about Pachinko.