Where are you going?

Alan's Korean was pretty limited. He could ask for grilled meat, water, money, and cigarettes. When he tried to ask where the bathroom was (hwajangshil), he accidentally asked where to find a famous battlefield from the year 660 (Hwangsanbeol).

But when he was little, he did learn a single children's song in Korean.

Little things like this remind me of how Korean we grew up. As American as our household was, we had kimchi at almost every meal. Some of Alan's favorite snacks as a baby were from the Korean grocery store (those little pancakes with red bean paste in the middle, for instance). He loved tteokbokki, soft rice cakes in a spicy chili sauce. He was equally as likely to make Korean ramen noodles with mandu thrown in as he was to make Easy Mac.

In the song, the mountain rabbit's response is that he is going to the mountaintop to get chestnuts to share. It's still hard to believe he's not coming back sometimes.