The Korean American who loved...] / Jackie Hahn

[The Korean American who loved Buddaejjigae so much he married it]

Jackie Hahn

Content Notes: racial slur

This is home food from outside

Or bunsik or hangover food or

Lunch.

Funny then, how it comes from a war, from pulling

Trash out the back end of the US Military base.

Funny how, I grew up in the States without a taste

For Heinz Baked Beans, or Spam from a Can, or

American Cheese.

Funny how, they praise him so much we adopt him as

Korean, while the rest of the American people have only

just made Gooks publicly worthy of sexualization. Funny

How he looks just like the white guys in the military base.

Funny how it upsets my stomach.

Funny how they call him an American who is so Korean

He’d marry Budae Jjigae. Funny how when its translated

It sounds like Korean American. Funny how it’s suddenly

Cuisine instead of Garbage.

Funny how, He will teach his students at hagwon how to receive

men like him. How to take in a boot whole, how to wrap your tongue

Around the language. How to spit the words, how to orate well, how

to pronounce Coke.