Works in Melbourne

Life stories from Melbourne, Australia. Work, family, and everyday moments of an immigrant life. On the afternoon of December 5, 2005, as the first snow of the year fell in Korea, I boarded a plane at Incheon Airport.The next morning, I arrived in Melbourne, Australia. As I stepped outside the airport, the air felt unexpectedly cool, even though it was midsummer. That unfamiliar sensation stayed with me. I was forty-nine years old then. I had spent seventeen years working at