The secret gardens of Seoul's palaces
Intertwined with skyscrapers
competiting with the city's mountains disappearing when the dust wind rises
The lost grand trees of Gwanhamun gil
The translucent subtle glow of the medusa-like fairylights along Chunggyechon canal
The beaming face of the wrinkled hotel's porter
The ice-flaked and red beans hills.
These memories shaped as the native tourist-but-not-born in the metropolis that I am looked at them, for me to see in the future.